According to figures presented at the start of the seminar on Monday, about 82 percent of all oil transport by sea goes to Italian ports, oil tankers entering Croatian ports make up 14 percent of the annual transport in the northern Adriatic and 3.5 percent goes to Slovenia.
In case of the implementation of the Druzba Adria project, on the integration of oil pipelines from Russia to the Croatian port of Omisalj, the total transport of oil in that port will climb to some 11 million tonnes annually, and there will be 30 more tankers sailing in the Adriatic.
Currently 66 ships enter Omisalj annually while the port of Trieste registers arrivals of some 360 ships.
The Opatija event, pooling Croatian, German and Croatian experts, was organised by the Croatian Sea Ministry and the Oslo-based Fridtjof Nansen Institute, an independent foundation engaged in research on international environmental, energy, and resource management politics.