South Korea to advance ban on single-hull tankers

摘要

Singapore-South Korea plans to advance a ban on visits by single-hull tankers to 2010 from the original timetable of 2015 following the country's worst oil spill earlier this month."Following the accident,we plan to advance the timetable to phase out sin-gled-hulled vessels," AFP reported December 21,quoting Lee Ki-Sang,deputy director of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries.