Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The OILPOL Convention recognised that most oil pollution resulted from routine shipboard operations such as the cleaning of cargo tanks. In the 1950s, the normal practice was simply to wash the tanks out with water and then pump the resulting mixture of oil and water into the sea. OILPOL 54 prohibited the dumping of oily wastes within a certain ...
Oil Pollution Act of 1961, 33 U.S.C. Chapter 20 §§ 1001–1011, established judicial definitions and coastal prohibitions for the United States maritime industry.The Act invoked the accords of the International Convention for the Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil, 1954.
International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation (OPRC) is an international maritime convention establishing measures for dealing with marine oil pollution incidents nationally and in co-operation with other countries. [1]
Prevention of pollution by harmful substances carried by sea in packaged form: 1 July 1992: 138: 97.59 Annex IV: Pollution by sewage from ships: 27 September 2003 Annex V: Pollution by garbage from ships: 31 December 1988 Annex VI: Prevention of air pollution from ships: 19 May 2005: 72: 94.70 Notes
The Oil Pollution Act of 1973 or Oil Pollution Act Amendments of 1973, 33 U.S.C. Chapter 20 §§ 1001-1011, was a United States federal law which amended the United States Statute 75 Stat. 402.
Generally a release is of the form: For good and valuable consideration , the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, I, the releasor, release the releasee for any and all claims I may have against the releasee up to the date of the signing of this release [relating to or arising from _____________].
The First Intersessional Meeting of IMO's Working Group on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships took place in Oslo, Norway (23–27 June 2008), tasked with developing the technical basis for the reduction mechanisms that may form part of a future IMO regime to control greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, and a draft of the ...
Marpol Annex I is the first implementation made by Marpol 73/78, [1] one of the most important international marine environmental conventions. The convention was designed to minimize pollution of the seas from ships.