Decision ID: 003154

In October 2006 the 1992 Fund Assembly decided that permanently and semi-permanently anchored vessels engaged in ship-to-ship oil transfer operations should be regarded as ‘ships’ under the 1992 Civil Liability Convention and the 1992 Fund Convention only when they carried oil as cargo on a voyage to or from a port or terminal outside the location in which they normally operated, but that in any event the decision as to whether such a vessel fell within the definition of ‘ship’ under the Conventions should be decided in the light of the particular circumstances of the case.