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

Pays/Territoire
Chine
Type de cour
Nationale - cour supérieure
Date
Déc 25, 2004
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Nom du tribunal
Tianjin Maritime Court
Siège de la cour
Tianjin
Juge
Wu Liqun; Xu Fubin; Dong Lijuan
Numéro de référence
No. 184 (2003), First Instance, Tianjin Maritime Court [ (2003) 津海法事初字第184号]
Langue
Chinois
Sujet
Pêche, Mer
Mot clé
Substances dangereuses Pollution marine (imputable aux navires) Pollution de la mer (immersion de déchets) Biodiversité Gestion des ressources marines
Résumé

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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