Individual Hebei Spirit claims still a challenge for fund

THE HEBEI Spirit disaster continued to present significant challenges to the International Oil Pollution Compensation (IOPC) Fund last year, even though 2009 was itself a quiet year for oil spills.

The oil spill, which occurred in December 2007, has caused more than 80,000 individual claims to be submitted so far under the 1992 fund and the IOPC Fund director Willem Oosterveen believes there are more to come.
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