VOL. XXXVII

NO. 25

21-MARCH-1994

OPEC

Oil Bosphorus Tanker Collision Strengthens Turkish Argument For PipelineOption

Shipping The collision of a laden oil tanker with a freighter inside thenorthern entrance of the Bosphorus Strait on 13 March has left Turkey in aposition to say "I told you so," and strengthened its argument thatfuture Central Asian oil exports should be routed overland to the Mediterranean.

For some time Turkey has expressed its fears of a tanker mishap in the busyBosphorus and...