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OIL SPILL TECHNOLOGY

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Aegean Sea in Spain, Braer in the

Shetland Isles, Sea Prince and

Honam Saphhire in South Korea and Sea Empress in Wales.

Ian C. White, managing director of the organization, recently deliv- ered a speech to the American

Steamship Owners Mutual

Protection and Indemnity

Association Safety/Claims Seminar.

Provided below are excerpts of his speech, titled Oil Spills and

Cleanup Costs: An International

Perspective. The editors and pub- lishers of Maritime Reporter do not necessarily support all of the state- ments made in this speech.

The Management of Spill Response

While the technical aspects of dealing with an oil spill are clearly important, the effectiveness of the response to a major spill will ulti- mately depend upon the quality of the contingency plan, and of the organization and control of the vari- ous aspects of the cleanup opera- tion. Numerous difficult decisions as well as compromises will be required throughout the response operation, and the widely differing requirements of a multitude of gov- ernmental and private organiza- tions, as well as public and political pressures will need to be reconciled.

Outside of the U.S. and a very a few other countries, governments generally assume responsibility for organizing and controlling the cleanup of a major tanker spill, either using their own resources or those available from private organi- zations. There are many good rea- sons why a government agency is best placed to take the lead in responding to tanker spills, not the least being that such spills often involve vessels in innocent passage whose owners do not have an opera- tional capability in the affected country. The responsibility for pro- tecting a country's interests also must ultimately rest with govern- ment, which alone is in a position to determine priorities for protection and cleanup in the particular cir- cumstances. The international com- pensation regimes were in part cre- ated to encourage governments to assume the responsibility for responding to spills of persistent oil from tankers by safeguarding the financial exposure of responders through the "polluter pays" princi- ple.

As well as attending on-site at spills to provide advice and assis- tance and to monitor response operations, the International

Tanker Owners Pollution

Federation Ltd. is also asked by various entities involved in pro- viding spill compensation to assess the damage caused by spills and the technical merits of claims for compensation, both for cleanup costs and damage. Staff are reportedly involved in the assess- ment of claims rising out of a number of incidents such as

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