ITOPF and the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds have signed two agreements stipulating how both organisations will work together during an incident involving a qualifying ship not…
ITOPF’s Research and Development (R&D) Award 2024 application window will be open from the 1st September to 2nd December with up to £60,000 available for short-term projects (1-2 years) and up to…
ITOPF’s core service is to provide response advice and impact mitigation to ship-source pollution events, and its Technical Team has visited two Stolt vessels (STOLT EFFICIENCY and STOLT JAEGER) to…
Whilst leaving the port of San Francisco in thick fog on 7th November 2007, laden container vessel COSCO BUSAN allided with a pier of the Oakland Bay Bridge causing a tear in the vessel’s hull in the…
At approximately 02:30h on 10th September 2017, the chemical/product tanker AGIA ZONI II sank close to Atalanti Island, in the Piraeus anchorage area. The vessel reportedly had 2,194 metric tons of…
On 26th November 2004, the oil tanker ATHOS 1 struck an abandoned submerged and uncharted anchor on the approach to the Citgo refinery dock on the Delaware River, Paulsboro, New Jersey. The anchor…
Singapore Maritime Week has come to a close and its been busy for Managing Director, Oli Beavon and the team in Singapore. More than 20,000 participants have interacted across more than 50 events…
We have entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of Ports and Coasts of Marinha do Brasil to formalise and strengthen our cooperation in promoting effective spill response in…
Technical Team Manager, Franck Laruelle and Technical Adviser, Angela Pinzón Espinosa facilitated a two-day RETOS workshop in Israel as part of the National Workshops on Oil Spill Response Planning…