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Tuesday, 04 June 19
MARPOL ANNEX VI - SULPHUR CAP 2020 - DEMYSTIFYING THE FONAR - SKULD
 KNOWLEDGE TO ELEVATE
Fuel Oil Non-Availability Report (FONAR) is primarily a discretionary tool for a Member State to lessen the breach of MARPOL Annex VI, it is not an exemption but rather a self-declaration by owners that a breach has or is about to occur.
IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (“MEPC”) 74 published its resolutions on 20 May 2019 and specifically Section 5 deals with the ramifications of the aforementioned report.
The concerns over non-availability of globally compliant bunkers of 0.5% bear identical hallmarks of the implementation of the ECA zones and availability of 0.1% back in 2015.
There has been much discussion on whether owners may rely on the FONAR due to non-availability of compliant fuel.
However, how it will be applied by each Member State remains to be seen.
The FONAR consists of an immensely detailed questionnaire. Owners who find themselves in breach of Regulation 18 can make use of a FONAR. However, the evidential threshold is high and succeeding on a dispensation or reduction of a fine will depend on whether best efforts were made to:
Source compliant fuel;
Source local alternative sources.
That said, even unavailability is not a carte blanche to breaching MARPOL since alternative compliant fuels could have, most likely, been purchased such as 0.1% distillates.
To support a claim that all efforts were made to source complaint fuel, owners will need to furnish exhaustive evidence that a voyage plan was in place, that there were valid reasons for being unable to source compliant bunkers and/or operational issues which would have endangered the vessel had the non-compliant bunkers been burnt.
Owners can be sure that the Port State Control (PSC) inspectors will investigate other vessels which called at a port which allegedly did not have compliant fuel available in order to verify the truth of the statements contained within the report.
The PSC will also look for evidence of any fuel changeovers conducted outside of the jurisdiction of the Member States and whether the vessel had working emission control equipment during its visit.
Interestingly, the PSC will keep record of how many FONARs a vessel and/or their operators have requested in a period of twelve months. Any patterns of non-compliance by a fleet will be found out, sanctioned and prevented from submitting future FONARs.
Stringent investigations are likely to ensue following the submission of a FONAR and the information will be shared between Member States to report on compliant fuel oil supply issues.
Owners should beware that only a small quantity of non-compliant bunkers should be stemmed, if at all, as entering a Member State will result in the entirety of the non-compliant bunkers being debunkered at owners’ expense to bring the vessel within compliance.
The new FONAR wording is set out at Annex 1 of MEPC 74.
Source: SKULD
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Thursday, 23 January 20
AFRICAN POWER PLATFORM PUBLISHES REPORTS ON POWER SECTOR FRAMEWORK FOR SELECTED AFRICAN COUNTRIES
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- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
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- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
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- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
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- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
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- Minerals Council of Australia
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- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
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- VISA Power Limited - India
- MS Steel International - UAE
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
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- Posco Energy - South Korea
- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
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- London Commodity Brokers - England
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- Eastern Energy - Thailand
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- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
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- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- Deloitte Consulting - India
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- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
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- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
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- Baramulti Group, Indonesia
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
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- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
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- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- Interocean Group of Companies - India
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- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
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- Wilmar Investment Holdings
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- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
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- The University of Queensland
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- Economic Council, Georgia
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- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
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- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
- Central Electricity Authority - India
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- Thiess Contractors Indonesia
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
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- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- White Energy Company Limited
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd. - India
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- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- Mintek Dendrill Indonesia
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- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- Sical Logistics Limited - India
- Xindia Steels Limited - India
- Barasentosa Lestari - Indonesia
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- Standard Chartered Bank - UAE
- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
- Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- Meenaskhi Energy Private Limited - India
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Ambuja Cements Ltd - India
- Manunggal Multi Energi - Indonesia
- Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
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- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
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- PetroVietnam Power Coal Import and Supply Company
- Marubeni Corporation - India
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- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- The Treasury - Australian Government
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Medco Energi Mining Internasional
- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
- ICICI Bank Limited - India
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- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
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- Kapuas Tunggal Persada - Indonesia
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- Australian Coal Association
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