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Tasman Sea spill case also known Tianjin Oceanic Bureau v. Infinity Shipping and the London Protection and Indemnity Club

País/Territorio
China
Tipo de la corte
Nacional - corte superior
Fecha
Dic 25, 2004
Fuente
UNEP, InforMEA
Nombre del tribunal
Tianjin Maritime Court
Sede de la corte
Tianjin
Juez
Wu Liqun; Xu Fubin; Dong Lijuan
Número de referencia
No. 184 (2003), First Instance, Tianjin Maritime Court [ (2003) 津海法事初字第184号]
Idioma
Chino
Materia
Mar, Pesca
Palabra clave
Sustancias peligrosas Contaminación marina (por buques) Contaminación marina (vertimiento) Biodiversidad Manejo de recursos marinos
Resumen

This case concerns the collision between a tanker sailing under a Maltese flag and a Chinese ship triggering an oil spill that lead to an important pollution and damages in the ecosystem of the Bohai Gulf.

The plaintiffs are administrations such as the Tianjin Oceanic Administration, the Tianjin Fisheries and Harbours Office and fishermen associations. They sued the owner of the tanker and its insurer for the ecological damages and the economic loss caused by the oil split.

The Tianjin Maritime Court ruled that under the terms of the 1992 International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, the two defendants had to pay compensation to the defendant for the marine environmental capacity and of fisheries resources.

(Contribution: Case provided by Professor Tianbao QIN, Tang HE, and Han GAO, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China)

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