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Guidelines for presenting claims for clean up and preventive measures

5.10 Some Member States belong to mutual 5.11 If, when assessing the use of vessels, the rates

aid organisations within which cooperative claimed appear particularly high, a comparison
agreements exist to make spill response vessels is sometimes made between the rates claimed
available from one country to another during and the rates derived from a formula, for
an incident. The State offering the vessels or example, based on the specification of the
other equipment frequently sets the rates which vessel.
are accepted by the receiving State due to the 5.12 The example shown below, shows one method
operational necessity of the resource in an of deriving the daily rate of a response vessel,
emergency situation. Some vessels may also typically for a vessel owned by the State or
be chartered in at market rates.
public authority, as no allowance has been
made for profit. The figures used are
illustrative only and should not be construed
as representing reasonable values.

Example
Methodology for deriving the hire rate of an oil spill response vessel
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Name RESPONSE II Annual Costs (Currency units ) £

GT 650 Cost of vessel 4 500 000
DWT 1 500 Amortised over 15-year lifespan 300 000
Engine power output, KW 2 500 Insurance 60 000
Year Built 1998 Classification Surveys 5 000
Repairs and Dockings 200 000
Manning Costs (Currency units ) £ Superintendency 7 600
Fuel Cost (at average of 5 000 18 000
Master (1 500/month) 18 000
litres/month at 0.30 per litre)
Chief Officer (1 000/month) 12 000
Victualling and consumables 32 400
Chief Engineer (1 250/month) 15 000 (at 2 700/month)
Seaman (800/month) 9 600
Subtotal 623 000
Oiler (800/month) 9 600
Manning subtotal 71 400
Deck hand (600/month) 7 200
Total Annual Cost 694 400
Subtotal 71 400
Daily Rate = total annual cost/available
working days

Number of days in a year 365 days
Less Holidays 13 days
Less Weekends 110 days
Less Surveys and Repairs 20 days
Total available working days 222 days

Daily Rate (694 400/222) = £3 128