With the initial initiative and the international support of ISCO experts, the local organization of the ISCO Corporate Member OceanPact (https://oceanpact.com/en/home/) this Case Study Seminar will be held on October 27, 2023 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. The Program includes three recent specific important cases from this third decade of the 21st century and which are considered to have been paradigmatic due to their causes and consequences, not only in

April 24 – IMO is urging Member States to contribute equipment to help UN-led efforts to prevent a possible catastrophic oil spill from the FSO SAFER, an ageing and rapidly decaying floating storage offshore (FSO) unit moored 4.8 nautical miles off the Red Sea coast of Yemen. IMO is providing expertise in oil spill preparedness and response as part of the contingency planning for a possible oil spill from the

From ISCO Newsletter 881 – CHANGES  AFFECTING ADVERTISING  IN THE ISCO NEWSLETTER Relevant campaigns having ended, this will be the last appearance of the small advertisements appearing on the left hand side of Pages 2 and 3 of this newsletter. In the past the small size of these advertisements has posed problems because in some cases the text content has sometimes been too small to be easily read. Prospective advertisers

EARLIER RETIREMENT OF ISCO SECRETARY-GENERAL, MR NEIL MARSON At our recent 2022 AGM it was announced that Neil Marson would not be standing for re-election to the position of ISCO Secretary-General at the next AGM later this year. As some of you may be aware, Neil has not been enjoying good health in recent months. We are sorry to have to tell you that we have heard from Neil that

The draft minutes of the postponed 2022 AGM (held on 9th February 2023) have been published in Issue 878 of the ISCO Newsletter. You can download this issue at https://spillcontrol.org/2023/02/26/isco-878-newsletter/

These documents were circulated to members by email on 10th January 2023. Any Member who has not received these documents should alert the Secretariat by email to [email protected] to request that a copies be sent. Members are invited to submit details of any additional matters that they would like to be discussed at the AGM. Such submissions should be sent by email to the Secretariat at [email protected] in advance of