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As adopted at the General Meeting in Athens, May 2019
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) and United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have developed voluntary best management practices for ballast water discharges for ships in order to mitigate the risk of transferring Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease.
The uncertainty around fuel and bunkering generates many questions for the P&I Club North of England. The club hears concerns ranging from how will it be enforced, to how to handle the difference between MARPOL Annex VI and the ISO 8217 standard, and what to do with bunker clauses?
The industry will see the first “live issues” between charterers and shipowners over the switch to low-sulphur fuel in the last quarter of 2019, Tiejha Smyth tells The Bulletin. Smyth is a deputy director in the Freight, Demurrage and Defence (FD&D) department of the North of England P&I Club, and she – along with the rest of the North FD&D team – is busy advising and helping club members to prepare for the uncertainties.
The carriage ban that comes into force on 1 March 2020 will quickly make the challenges of the 1 January 2020 sulphur limit fade, according to BIMCO’s Deputy Secretary General, Lars Robert Pedersen. When the ban kicks in, covering the basics or reaching for the Fuel Oil Non-availability Report (FONAR) will no longer be enough.
The Fuel Oil Non-availability Report (FONAR) is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. What is meant as a useful last resort for a ship arriving with non-compliant fuel at a port could come with an expensive price tag.
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