T
he IMO has been criticised that it has
triple and oil transportation is estimated
been proven to have an acidifying effect
been too slow to forge internation-
to increase by 40% by 2017. The large
on soil and water. As shipping is one of the
al rules to curb maritime emissions. IMO
number of islands, narrow straits, routes
main contributors to nitrogen oxide depo-
Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropou-
that are difficult to navigate and ice cov-
sition in the Baltic Sea, it \