Pollution from Ships' Bunkers and the Advent of the Bunkers Convention.- The Birth of Compulsory Insurance for Oil Pollution Liability.- Strict Liability and Insurance.- Insurance and the Quest for Adequate Compensation.- Limitation of Liability and the Limit of Insurance.- Direct Action against the Insurer and its Limited Effect.- Outlook on Insurance and Compensation for Bunker-Oil Pollution Liability.- Summary of Study.

Oil tankers are not solely to blame for pollution at sea. Non-tankers have released numerous spills. The International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage has been adopted, but has not yet come into force. This timely and comprehensive book studies compulsory insurance, its main purpose of ensuring compensation and its interrelations with other features such as the rule of strict liability, the limitation of liability of that convention.