Abstract

The transportation of crude oil will still mainly based on tanker in the next few decades. Although the number of largescale marine oil spill has decreased significantly over the last half a century, but our world will continuous confront many challenges about PCMPS (prevention and control of marine pollution by ships) inevitably. China has made great achievements of the capabilities for prevention and control of marine pollution by ships in the past decade, which mainly includes top-level design of framework, laws and regulations, industrial policies, technical specifications, spill emergency response team, contingency plan, etc. Moreover, with actively integrated of the emergency materials invested by governments, ship pollution removal enterprises and port enterprises, an emergency response system for PCMPS has been initially formed. Meanwhile, China needs continuous improvement in many aspects for marine environmental challenges in the future, such as the soft power of warehouses, coordination mechanism of all emergency forces, technical standard system, daily management and maintenance fund, waste receiving capacity, monitoring of oil spill site, etc.

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