Offshore oil spills are of tremendous concern due to their potential impact on economic and
ecological systems. A number of major oil spills triggered worldwide consciousness of oil …

As oil transportation worldwide continues to increase, many communities are at risk of oil
spill disasters and must anticipate and prepare for them. Factors that influence oil spill …

Environmental management is often complicated and multidisciplinary and the issues that
arise can be difficult to solve analytically. Often, decision makers take ad hoc approaches …

In the last 30 years, environmental sustainability has been receiving increasing attention by
scholars and operators. All the seaport stakeholders, including port authorities (PAs), policy …

The environmental impacts generated by shipping operations have increasingly become an
important research topic, where its pollutants often pose negative externalities to natural …

This paper reports on recent analysis of oil spill cost data assembled by the International Oil
Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPCF). Regression analyses of clean-up costs and total …

Abstract Failure of Leak Detection System (LDS) to detect pipeline leakages or ruptures may
result in drastic consequences that could lead to excessive financial losses. To minimize the …

As the rate of ice melt in the Arctic increases, the potential for shipping activities is also
increasing. However, infrastructure along the northwest passage (NWP) in Canada's Arctic …

Existing models estimating oil spill costs at sea are based on data from the past, and they
usually lack a systematic approach. This make them passive, and limits their ability to …

Oil tanker accidents resulting in large quantities of oil spills and severe pollution have
occurred in the past, leading to major public attention and an international focus on finding …