Sensitive decrease of the recovered volumes of producing polluting in sea from the associates of the International Salvage Union



The International Salvage Union (ISU) has recently diffused the just last annual report "Pollution Prevention relative Survey" to the 2010 that evidences a meaningful reduction of the volume of producing polluting recovered in sea from the ships of own associates regarding the year precedence. Such decrement - however it has specified the ISU - is in association with the decrease of the number of the participations of operated rescue and recovery from the associates in the course of 2010.
2010 Pollution Prevention Results

2009

2010

%
var

Number of services

204

166

-19%

Raw oil salved

743,506

195,300

-74%

Bunker fuel salved

99,753

89,367

-10%

Chemicals salved

112,740

32,561

-71%

Other pollutants

62,853

257,158

+309%

Totals

1,018,872

574,386

-44%

All figures in tonnes
In particular, last year producing are recovered 574,386 tons of polluting, with a bending of 44% regarding 2009. The decided decrease is consequence also of the reduction of recovered tons of crude oil (- 74%) determined from the fact that to the huge volume recovered in 2009 - has explained the ISU - they have contributed the activities of rescue regarding two great oil tankers operated in the course of the year.

"These figures - the president of the ISU, Todd Busch has commented - demonstrate as our field is subject to variations for a year to the other; moreover they demonstrate as the supply of services of rescue in occasion of incidents that involve great amounts of crude oil can increase the figures remarkablly, as it has happened in 2009. Even if the numbers are generally very inferior regarding those of the year precedence - it has emphasized Busch - once again the job of our associates have contributed to prevent serious and harmful pollution to the marine atmosphere. Even if every saved ship did not constitute a real threat for the atmosphere, us it cannot be some doubt that the services of our associates regarding ships that transported than 500.000 tons more than potential polluting agents have been of benefit for the atmosphere. And, in order to make a reference, in the course of the same year the American administration has estimated that about 700.000 tons of oil they have been overturned in the Gulf of Mexico in the course of its more serious environmental disaster".