Nairobi Wreck Removal Convention 2007

The Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks was adopted on 18 May 2007 and entered force on 14 April 2015. It makes the registered owner strictly liable for locating, marking, and removing a wreck that poses a hazard to navigation or the marine environment, and requires ships of 300 gross tonnage and above to carry compulsory insurance, evidenced by a state-issued certificate, against wreck-removal liability. It applies in a state party’s EEZ and, by opt-in declaration, its territorial sea, closing a gap the CLC and bunkers regimes left.