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The provincial Court de the Coruña has established the value of the indemnifications for the damages caused from the sinking of Prestige
The court has established that the Spanish State to receive a sum pairs to 1.573 million euros
November 16, 2017
To 15 years from the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker, happened at the end of 2002 to the wide one of head Finisterre in Spain(on 19 November 2002), yesterday the provincial Court de the Coruña has established in definitive way the value of the indemnifications for the damages caused from the incident that has determined a consisting sversamento of hydrocarbons in Galizia.
The court has established that the Spanish State will have to recover losses from with a figure pairs to 1.573 million euros, of which 931 million for the patrimonial damage credited to which sum 30% of the value - that is 279 million euros - for the environmental damages let alone 30% of the sum of these first two figures - that is ulterior 393 million euros - for the moral damages. Alla Giunta of the Galizia will have to go 1,8 million euros, to France 61 million euros and other inferior sums they will have to be poured to the local governments and private.
The indemnifications will have to be paid from the condemned parts which responsibles of the incident. Between these the commander of the ship, Apostolos Ioanni Mangouras, than at the beginning last year the Spanish Supreme Court has condemned to two years of detainment overturning the precedence acquittal of the same provincial Court de the Coruña, and the insurance company The London Steamship Owners Mutual Insurance Association, at least until to a limit of a billion of dollars. Subordinately the indemnifications will have to be poured from Mare Shipping Inc., owner of the ship. Moreover the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC) is called to pay a compensation in the limits established from the applicable conventions.
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To 15 years from the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker, happened at the end of 2002 to the wide one of head Finisterre in Spain
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
