Overview
- Comprehensive picture of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001
- Focus on compulsory insurance and compensation aspects
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs (HAMBURG, volume 5)
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Compulsory Insurance and Compensation for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage
Authors: Ling Zhu
Series Title: Hamburg Studies on Maritime Affairs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45903-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-45900-2Published: 03 November 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45903-3Published: 20 March 2007
Series ISSN: 1614-2462
Series E-ISSN: 1867-9587
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 242
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Public Law
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking, Law