United States Coast Guard Marine Safety Office Guam Guam Tel: +671-3396100 (24hr) or +671 3392001 Fax: +671 3392005 Additionally, a spiller must notify the US National Response Centre: National
Pollution Control Operations Section (Office hours) Directorate General of Environmental Affairs Ministry of Regional Municipalities, Environment & Water Resources PO Box 323 Muscat Code
David joined ITOPF in November 2014. He holds a BSc in Marine Biology and an MSc in Tropical Coastal Management and has worked extensively throughout Asia Pacific in CSR, event management and
We were delighted to work alongside the INDIAN COAST GUARD in Mumbai to jointly deliver the capacity building workshop ‘Sanrakshan’ to a group of 20 high-ranking delegates involved in marine
The Maltese tanker ERIKA, carrying some 31,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil as cargo, broke in two in a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay on 12th December 1999, 60 miles from the coast of Brittany. All
Whilst a range of response techniques have proven successful in laboratory and controlled field experiments in Arctic conditions, they are yet to be tested in a full-scale incident. The
To supply the global demand for plastic, significant quantities of pre-production plastic pellets are transported by sea in containers. Plastic pellets, or nurdles, are lentil-sized (typically < 5mm)
ITOPF is pleased to announce the winner of its 2023 Research and Development (R&D) award as the PLASTOIL project, with funding granted to the Centre for Documentation, Research and Experimentations
The main at-sea response options for the Arctic are containment and recovery, chemical dispersion, and in-situ burning. Containment & Recovery of Oil in Ice Mechanical recovery of oil in ice
