The European Commission announced last week that it was to launch guidelines for port states on assessing the source of unidentified oil spills, said a report by Intertanko, the association of tanker owners. The guidelines, being developed by the Swedish Coastguard would base the assessment principles on oil fingerprinting techniques already expensively used by states…
TANKERS: EU combat pollution by “oil fingerprinting”
Posted on March 4, 2003 by EnergyAsia