Hazardous goods at sea

Spill accident modeling: a critical survey of the event-decision network in the context of IMO's formal safety assessment

“…have rendered oil spill imagery accessible to everyone. The sight of seabirds afloat in oil, along with the accompanying "endless discussions about the millions of tax dollars spent in clean-up operations" have reached practically every individual in the countries inflicted, Barker [1]. As shown in Table 1, however, more than 70% of the oil that ends up in the sea emanates from sources other than maritime transport, such as land-based activities and industrial wastes, Ventikos [2].…”