Contribution liability compensation for ship-sourced oil pollution damage in South Africa
Journal: African Sun Media eBooks
Year: 2020

shipments en route to the East and West 9 carried by tankers that are too large to transit through the Suez Canal. The Apollo and the Treasure required costly clean-up measures and had significant impacts on the marine environment and marine life. Indeed, the oil contamination caused by the Apollo led to an enormous environmental catastrophe killing thousands of seabirds, including endangered African penguins, 14 while the grounding of the Treasure caused the worst oiling incident in South Afric