ISCO launches new Free Corporate Membership Benefit
ISCO is launching a major new benefit in the form of FREE advertisements for our Corporate Members. This takes the form of free advertisements in the ISCO Newsletter. Each ad will provide “one click” facility for viewing the Member’s website The new ads will be introduced gradually depending on uptake of the new benefit. The ISCO Newsletter goes out every week to companies involved in servicing the pollution response industry
ISCO-OceanPact Seminar, Rio de Janeiro, 27.10.2023 – Case Studies – Prevention and Response: The Two Latin Americas
Author Carlos Sagrera, MSc. Rev. Matthew Sommerville, Eng. Official photos of the event can be viewed here: https://acostadisk2.direct.quickconnect.to:54839/mo/sharing/Orw8uAEDM#/ Let’s be direct and get to the point. There are two Latin Americas in terms of oil spill prevention and response: one is Spanish-speaking Latin America and the other is Portuguese-speaking Latin America, i.e. Brazil. The first one has many gaps in planning and, as a result, complex issues in defining its
ISCO TO FORM MOU WITH LATIN AMERICAN ORGANISATION SLOM
Following on discussions over recent months between Carlos Sagrera (ISCO’s representative in Latin America) other ISCO membersand the principles of The Sociedad Latinoamericana de Operadores de Terminales Marítimos Petroleros y Monoboyas – SLOM, theExecutive Committee of ISCO has approved a proposal to form a Memorandum of Understatanding with SLOM.The Sociedad Latinoamericana de Operadores de Terminales Marítimos Petroleros y Monoboyas – SLOM, is an international, non –profit association, that seeks integration
ISCO-OCEANPACT BRAZIL INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR – MARITIME POLLUTION AND 21ST CENTURY OIL SPILLS: “LESSONS LEARNED FOR BRAZIL & LATIN AMERICA PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT – CASE STUDIES”
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
FSO SAFER: CALL FOR EQUIPMENT FOR OIL SPILL RESPONSE PREPAREDNESS
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
CHANGES AFFECTING ADVERTISING IN THE ISCO NEWSLETTER
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
