Prof Robert Beckman, Dr. Trung Nguyen and Joel Ong have co-authored an article titled: Possible Actions by Coastal States to Protect Their Marine Environment from Oil Tankers in the Dark Fleet https://brill.com/view/journals/estu/aop/article-10.1163-15718085-bja10219/article-10.1163-15718085-bja10219.xml

The Article is published in The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Brill) and is available with open access through the MPA-CIL Oceans Governance Research Programme funded by the generous support of the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI-2023-MA-03).

In the Article, the authors examine these issues and explore the options that coastal States can take under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) to protect their marine and coastal environment from the tankers in the dark fleet.