ITOPF has just published its annual Handbook for 2025/26. This contains a wealth of valuable information and guidance for those likely to be involved in spills of oil, chemicals or other cargo from
We maintain a worldwide database of accidental oil spills from tankers, combined carriers and barges. This is used to generate statistics on numbers and sizes of spill, and to identify the causes
Chemical spills occur at a much lower frequency than spills of oil. However, the consequence of a chemical spill can be more wide reaching than that of oil and there is growing international
The recent high-profile incident involving the crude oil tanker, SANCHI, in the East China Sea has focused attention on the potential hazards of transporting condensate by sea. Ship-source spills
ITOPF’s was delighted to receive the Salvage & Wreck 2017 Environmental Protection Award on 6th December at the close of day one of the Salvage & Wreck conference held in London.
