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Oil Pollution: Sustainable Ships and Shipping

  • Nikolaos P. VentikosEmail author
  • Konstantinos Louzis
  • Panagiotis Sotiralis
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The aim of this chapter is to highlight the most significant attributes ofoil pollution in the context of the sustainable shipping. The chapter presents the current legislative framework for the environmental protection against oil pollution and depicts the utility of the implementation of risk control options (RCOs). Furthermore, the measures of containment of the oil pollution cost are illustrated along with the incorporation of the Environmental Risk Evaluation Criteria in IMO’s Formal Safety Assessment. Finally, the chapter discusses feasible ways of achieving a sustainable future without undermining the environmental integrity.

Abbreviations

ALARP

As Low As Reasonably Practicable

AMVER

Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System

CAF

Cost of Averting a Fatality

CATS

Cost of Averting a Tonne of Spilt oil

COW

Crude oil washing

CV

Contingent Valuation

DWT

Deadweight

ECDIS

Electronic Chart Display and Information System

ENC

Electronic Navigation Chart

EU

European Union

FSA

Formal Safety Assessment

GT

Gross tonnage

HEA

Habitat Equivalent Analysis

ICAF

Implied Cost of Averting a Fatality

IMO

International Maritime Organization

IOPCF

International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds

ITOPF

International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Limited

MARPOL

International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships

MEPC

Marine Environment Protection Committee

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

OILPOL

International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by oil

OPA

Oil Pollution Act

OPRC

International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation

OSIR

Oil Spill Intelligence Report

P&I

Protection and indemnity

PDF

Probability density function

RCOs

Risk control options

SOLAS

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea

UK

United Kingdom

UN

United Nations

USA

United States of America

VHL

Value of Human Life

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  • Nikolaos P. Ventikos
    • 1
    Email author
  • Konstantinos Louzis
    • 1
  • Panagiotis Sotiralis
    • 1
  1. 1.National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)AthensGreece

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