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The Erika: potential unlimited liability for producers of waste


The breakdown of The Erika off the coast of Brittany, on 12 December 1999, and the oil spill which followed exposed her Owners, her Managers, her Charterers (the oil major Total) and her Classification Society (Rina) to large compensation claims from local authorities and businesses affected by the spill and from environmentalists/volunteers who took part in the clean-up.

Sayce, D. 2008, The Erika: potential unlimited liability for producers of waste, Ince & Co - Shipping eBrief.

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