Timely Response Speeds Pollution Clean-up

01 May 2006

One little known aspect of the grounding of the tanker Tasman Spirit off Karachi port is that concern for the health of pollution control workers led to the cessation of beach clean-up operations. 

Big Year for ISU Oil Recovery

01 May 2006

Members of the International Salvage Union recovered some 875,000 tons of pollutants during salvage operations last year. Emergency assistance was provided worldwide for 247 vessels with cargoes and bunkers threatening pollution. 

Brits Lower the Boom in America

01 May 2006

Two exhibitors at the recent Spill 06 event in London collaborated earlier this year when UK based Oil Limited took its newly developed RB400 rigid boom system across the Atlantic to be tested by Ohmsett, America's National Oil Spill Response Test Facility in New Jersey.