Amanda Howarth joined ITOPF in 2000. She has an MBA and is a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA and CGMA). Amanda has almost 25 years' experience in the tanker industry and has worked as
METULA grounded in the eastern Strait of Magellan, on 9th August 1974. Around 47,000 tonnes of light Arabian crude oil and 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil are estimated to be have been lost.
ITOPF attended the second transboundary liability and compensation workshop held to consider the financial aspects of an oil spill affecting both Canadian and US waters.
ITOPF's tanker spill statistics released today showed a slight increase in the number of large spills from tankers in 2013 compared to the previous two years but the downward trend is maintained.
