Compulsory Insurance and Compensation for Bunker Oil Pollution DamageSpringer Science & Business Media, 2007 M03 20 - 242 pages Oil tankers are not the only vessels that have caused oil pollution at sea. Numerous spills in the past have been of heavy fuel oil from non-tankers. However, the international liability and compensation regime covered only oil pollution damage caused by oil tankers. There was thus a need to bring the law on marine oil pollution responsive to oil pollution damage caused by non-tankers. In March 2001, the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage was adopted following a diplomatic conference at the International Maritime Organization. Though this convention has not yet come into force, its various aspects should already be considered as they will surely affect the maritime industry as a whole and the non-tanker sector, in particular. This book provides a timely and comprehensive study on the concept of compulsory insurance, its main purpose of ensuring compensation and its interrelations with other features such as the rule of strict liability and the limitation of liability under the convention. |
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... pollution damage and the liability for bunker oil pollution damage. Many books have been written on the former but not on the latter. The subject of my study may be deduced from the title without much difficulty. It is principally the ...
... ................ I. 1. Pollution damage arising from a bunker-oil spill......................... 152 153 153 2. The claims subject to limitation under the 1976 LLMC and its Protocol .................................................
... Pollution Damage Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensa- tion and Liability Act of 1980 ( the United States ) ... Pollution Damage , 1969 Protocol of 1992 to Amend the International Con- vention on Civil Liability for Oil ...
... Pollution Damage, 1971 and its 1992 Protocol The Georgetown International Environmental Law Review House of Lords International Convention on Liability and Compen- sation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and ...
... pollution which might be caused by the spill or discharge of oil from ships. It is generally recognised that preventing pollution is better than compensating for the resulting damage. Specific standards and regu- lations have thus been ...
Contents
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I | 19 |
10 | 29 |
13 | 40 |
The Birth of Compulsory Insurance for Oil Pollution | 49 |
20 | 52 |
Possible | 55 |
d The International Group of PI Clubs II The insurers offering coverage for oilpollution liability | 66 |
Port State control regarding | 118 |
Operator | 139 |
Limitation of Liability and the Limit of Insurance | 145 |
Limitation of Liability | 165 |
Introduction | 171 |
The limited effect of direct action under PI insurance | 178 |
Interpretation of wilful misconduct in insurance | 188 |
F Recourse | 196 |
Strict Liability and Insurance | 81 |
Who shall be liable? | 93 |
67 | 95 |
c The role of the PI Club with regard to an oil | 102 |
Channelling | 103 |
insurance | 105 |
Insurance and the Quest for Adequate Compensation | 110 |
Oil | 199 |
maintaining their sustainable development III Shipowners the central actor | 203 |
A The concept of compulsory insurance and its compensation | 211 |
Text of the Bunkers | 227 |
Index 239 | 238 |
B The global limitation of liability system in relation to Limitation of liability rule in general ships | 240 |
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