Tag: oil pollution

The U.S. Coast Guard announced that a Notice of Availability (NOA) pertaining to Coastal Zone Area Contingency Plan (ACP) guidance has been published.

Singapore is taking over the rotational chairmanship of the Revolving Fund Committee, from Malaysia. The fund was set up by Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Malacca Strait Council to ensure that Straits of Malacca and Singapore waterways remain safe and clean.

MOL announced its opening of a permanent website (Mauritius Website) featuring the MOL Group's activities to protect and restore the natural environment in the Republic of Mauritius.

IMO Secretary-General urges States to support UN coordinated plan to transfer oil from degrading floating storage unit off Yemen.

As part of United Nations-coordinated efforts to address the risk of an oil spill from the FSO SAFER moored off the coast of Yemen, IMO and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Yemen are supporting contingency planning workshops to strengthen Yemen's oil spill response capability.

The UN has co-ordinated a deal in Yemen to unload more than 1 million barrels of crude oil from the rusting FSO Safer tanker and make safe what officials and experts have described as a ticking environmental time bomb.

The insurers of the X-Press Pearl ship will pay another $2.5 million within the next few days as compensation for the environmental damage caused by the fire.

SAMSA says a Croatian flagged vessel detained in South Africa two weeks ago after an oil spill during bunkering in Algoa Bay has been released.

On October 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced several key updates to DOJ’s approach to corporate criminal prosecutions. 

The removal of debris coming from the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl that sank in Lankan waters, is set to start early November.