Decision ID: 000289

In October 1993 the 1971 Fund Executive Committee decided that the losses of hire suffered by a vessel charterer and a shipowner as a result of the closure of the port of La Coruña due to the oil spill should be considered as damage caused by contamination and that the claims for the losses should be accepted in principle.

Date: 30.09.1993
Category: Pure economic loss (general)
Subject: Link of causation between loss and contamination