And you're basically hoping to change the way people think about the Black Sea. The coastal cultures are more closely related to each other than they are to the inland areas. This is the natural economic unit and we find it very interesting. We are having a common dialogue with our contemporary economic situation where now the borders of the Soviet Union have fallen and there's an attempt to re-establish the Black Sea as one of the major trading zones in Eurasia. As someone who has studied land and sea trade, I can tell you sea trade is a much better and a much less risky way of trading than overland.
Ships represent a much more efficient way of moving stuff around.
Rather than being a barrier to communication and exchange, the sea is a natural conduit for trade.