中國大陸面對油荒, 目前90%的燃油是透過運油船運送到國內, 結果因為大大小小的漏油造成嚴重的海岸污染.
節錄自Xinhua
"At least 90 per cent of the nation's imported crude
oil is transported by sea, with the figure last year reaching up to 110 million
tons, statistics show.
Coupled with the surge in marine transport is a
growth in the number of oil spills. Between 1973 and 2003, more than 2,350 oil
spills occurred along the nation's coast one spill every 4.6 days.
On April 4 this year, the Portuguese oil tanker
Arteaga, carrying about 120,000 tons of crude oil from the Yemen, struck a rock
and became stranded off Dalian Port in Northeast China's Liaoning Province.
Just three days ago, a Chinese oil tanker collided
with a Malaysian-registered 9,000-ton ship at Dalian Port while carrying 3,800
tons of diesel to Guangzhou in South China's Guangdong Province, causing an oil
spill."