BULK MATTERS accompanies the Club DVD 'Bulk Matters' and highlights some of the most frequent causes of Bulk Carrier claims that the Club sees. This insightful booklet covers such topics hold cleaning; The Silver Nitrate test and Moisture Migration. This booklet also points to many other valuable Club publications which will assist Members prevent claims and limit liability.
The lengthy judicial proceedings in the French courts arising out of the sinking and massive oil spill from the tanker ERIKA off the coast of Brittany in December 1999, gave rise to numerous questions regarding the interaction between the international oil pollution liability conventions as incorporated into French law and other French legislation which claimants argued should apply. As a result legislation has been passed by France since the ERIKA judgements in an attempt to codify the Erika jurisprudence.
