| For the first time since the International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation (ITOPF) began collating tanker spill statistics in 1970, no major oil spills were recorded from tankers in 2009.
Defined as 700 tonnes or greater (> 5,000 bbls), the number of major spills from tankers has consistently been reducing over recent years such that the average number of major spills for the decade (2000-2009) is about three. This is less than half of the average for the 1990s and just an eighth of the average for the 1970s. The same is true for medium sized spills from tankers (7-700 tonnes, or 50 – 5,000 bbls) where the average number of spills occurring in the last decade was 14, half of that experienced during the previous decade.
Go to the Statistics for the numbers and quantities and download the ITOPF Statistics Package.
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