Assessing the impacts of Sanchi incident on Chinese law concerning ship-source oil pollution

Xing, Wangwang; Zhu, Ling

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106227

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“…Marine activities can pollute the aquatic environment via discharges and spillages of oil and other substances during operations, while marine accidents can also involve spillages of larger amounts of oil and other hazardous substances. As a result, problems affecting ecology, tourism, and the environment may occur [41]. The actual pollution status of marine protected areas around the world and their consequent negative effects on the environment is largely unknown [42].…”

Section: Potential Impacts Of Marine Accidents To the Aquatic Environ...mentioning

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Marine Accidents in the Brazilian Amazon: Potential Risks to the Aquatic Environment

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Although the Brazilian Amazon is still one of the most well-conserved environments in the world, it contains an extensive network of waterways that are used by a wide range of vessels that transport both people and cargo, as well as undertaking other activities. To plan environmental risk disaster strategies here, the potential effects of technological disasters, including marine accidents, must be taken into consideration. This paper seeks to redress this by providing a review of the possible risks to the Amazon aquatic environment that could result from various types of marine accidents. While the Amazon region has been researched worldwide, both extensively and intensively, regarding land use, climate, and environmental characterization, work in this field is scarce. A review of the main environmental characteristics of the Amazon is provided, including a description of common marine accidents that have occurred in this region. The environmental impacts experienced by the aquatic environment due to marine accidents worldwide were reviewed from the scientific literature to examine potential risks to the Amazon waterways. It was found that marine accidents, such as fire/explosions and the sinking of ships with different types of cargo, can cause the spillage of oil and other hazardous materials, causing catastrophic damage to the aquatic environment. Changes in the hydrological characteristics of rivers, including unexpected changes in the weather, such as heavy rain and winds, may also influence pollutant dispersion. Initiatives to deal with these technological hazards in the Amazon basin should also consider the potential social and environmental impacts in the protected areas of this region. It is hoped that this paper can serve as a starting point toward the governance and planning of risk disaster management actions, which are aimed at reducing the negative environmental impacts caused by marine accidents in the region.

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“…Examples (HNS Involved) The impacts of the MT Sanchi ship incident, in the East China Sea, in 2018 were investigated by Xing and Zhu [41]. This spillage produced catastrophic oil pollution damage and was one of the most serious accidents of this type in China.…”

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Marine Accidents in the Brazilian Amazon: Potential Risks to the Aquatic Environment

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“…The defects of the Chinese compensation fund are multidimensional, most of which have been subject to longstanding investigation and continue to have an outstandingly negative role. For instance, by analyzing recent oil spill incidents, scholars have determined that China still lacks adequate capabilities to respond to open sea oil spills in many respects, including an inadequate amount of compensation and international cooperation (Xing and Zhu, 2022).…”

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Legal advice on the Chinese compensatory fund system for oil pollution damage caused by ships from the perspective of marine environmental governance

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2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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As one of the primary obstructive factors for marine environmental governance, the frequent occurrence of oil pollution damage caused by ships has resulted in the establishment of compensation funds, such as the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund of the United States, Ship Oil Pollution Fund of Canada and International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPC). Frequently suffering from marine oil pollution, China has extended considerable effort in marine environmental governance. Following the introduction of the ‘green principle’ into the Civil Code, China attached increasing significance to the legislation including compensation for oil pollution damage caused by ships. China formally established a compensation fund in 2012, and the past decade has witnessed the burgeoning development of the Chinese Ship-source Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (CSOPC), in addition to several defects which impede the fund from achieving the goal of marine environmental governance. As a national fund that is independent of the IOPC, the CSOPC adopts several regulations that are distinctive from internationally recognized practice; for instance, not recognizing pure economic loss within the scope of compensation. Such unique parameters, though partially originating from the national conditions in China, have resulted in glaring defects, including incomplete compensation scope and inappropriate compensation measures. Given the above problems, this study endeavours to provide several legal recommendations from the perspective of macro policies for improving the top-level design of the system, enhancing oil pollution compensation capabilities, and promoting the internationalization process. The study proposes two potential regulatory paths for innovation; namely, enlarging the range of compensation and establishing an essential emergency fund. From the perspective of protecting the rights of the victims of oil pollution damage and safeguarding the public interests of the ocean, this study puts forward relevant legal suggestions, which are expected to make valuable contributions to improving the compensation system for oil pollution damage caused by ships in China and promoting the governance of the marine environment.

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Experimental study on flame length and pulsation behavior of n-heptane continuous spill fires on water

Zhao,

Song,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries

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Assessing the impacts of Sanchi incident on Chinese law concerning ship-source oil pollution

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Marine Accidents in the Brazilian Amazon: Potential Risks to the Aquatic Environment

Marine Accidents in the Brazilian Amazon: Potential Risks to the Aquatic Environment

Legal advice on the Chinese compensatory fund system for oil pollution damage caused by ships from the perspective of marine environmental governance

Experimental study on flame length and pulsation behavior of n-heptane continuous spill fires on water

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