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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, 19 December 19
COAL POWER GENERATION CONTINUES TO DECLINE IN GERMANY: DESTATIS, XINHUA REPORTED
The volume of electricity generated in coal-fired power plants in Germany decreased “markedly” by 37 percent to 34 billion kilowatt-hou ...
Thursday, 19 December 19
BANGLADESH'S NBR CUTS VAT ON COAL IMPORT FOR POWER PLANTS - THE DAILY STAR
The National Board of Revenue (NBR) reduced value added tax on the import of coal for power plants to 5 percent from present 15 percent for five ye ...
Wednesday, 18 December 19
AVERAGE PRICES OF COAL IN 2018 WERE MORE THAN 60% HIGHER THAN IN 2016 - IEA
Coal use grew again in 2018.
Global coal demand increased by 1.1%, continuing the rebound that began in 2017 after three years of decline ...
Wednesday, 18 December 19
ASIA IS SET TO SUPPORT GLOBAL COAL DEMAND FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS - IEA
Press Release: Global coal demand is expected to decline in 2019 but remain broadly stable over the next five years, supported by robust growth in ...
Wednesday, 18 December 19
SHIPPING MARKET INSIGHT - INTERMODAL
As we all know very well by now, the reduction in the maximum allowable sulphur content of marine fuels in 2020 is likely to have a massive impact ...
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- Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence - India
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- Barasentosa Lestari - Indonesia
- Metalloyd Limited - United Kingdom
- Latin American Coal - Colombia
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- Economic Council, Georgia
- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
- Parliament of New Zealand
- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Tata Chemicals Ltd - India
- Cigading International Bulk Terminal - Indonesia
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
- The University of Queensland
- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- TeaM Sual Corporation - Philippines
- Standard Chartered Bank - UAE
- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- Makarim & Taira - Indonesia
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
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- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
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- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
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- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
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- White Energy Company Limited
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- Sinarmas Energy and Mining - Indonesia
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- Coastal Gujarat Power Limited - India
- Central Electricity Authority - India
- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
- Oldendorff Carriers - Singapore
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- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
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- Coalindo Energy - Indonesia
- Lanco Infratech Ltd - India
- Kumho Petrochemical, South Korea
- Ministry of Mines - Canada
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- Karbindo Abesyapradhi - Indoneisa
- Baramulti Group, Indonesia
- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- Ambuja Cements Ltd - India
- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- Carbofer General Trading SA - India
- Riau Bara Harum - Indonesia
- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
- PetroVietnam Power Coal Import and Supply Company
- Vizag Seaport Private Limited - India
- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
- Sical Logistics Limited - India
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
- Straits Asia Resources Limited - Singapore
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- Mercator Lines Limited - India
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
- Cement Manufacturers Association - India
- Posco Energy - South Korea
- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Vijayanagar Sugar Pvt Ltd - India
- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
- Thiess Contractors Indonesia
- Petrochimia International Co. Ltd.- Taiwan
- OPG Power Generation Pvt Ltd - India
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, - India
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Holcim Trading Pte Ltd - Singapore
- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
- Planning Commission, India
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
- India Bulls Power Limited - India
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- Asmin Koalindo Tuhup - Indonesia
- Pendopo Energi Batubara - Indonesia
- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
- Pipit Mutiara Jaya. PT, Indonesia
- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
- Kideco Jaya Agung - Indonesia
- Bukit Makmur.PT - Indonesia
- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
- Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd. - India
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- Orica Mining Services - Indonesia
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Central Java Power - Indonesia
- Kapuas Tunggal Persada - Indonesia
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Japan
- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
- Bhatia International Limited - India
- Madhucon Powers Ltd - India
- CNBM International Corporation - China
- Minerals Council of Australia
- Marubeni Corporation - India
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
- PowerSource Philippines DevCo
- Formosa Plastics Group - Taiwan
- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- PNOC Exploration Corporation - Philippines
- Ind-Barath Power Infra Limited - India
- Bangladesh Power Developement Board
- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
- Simpson Spence & Young - Indonesia
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Iligan Light & Power Inc, Philippines
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- ICICI Bank Limited - India
- Meenaskhi Energy Private Limited - India
- Mjunction Services Limited - India
- PTC India Limited - India
- Indogreen Group - Indonesia
- Siam City Cement - Thailand
- Kalimantan Lumbung Energi - Indonesia
- Xindia Steels Limited - India
- Timah Investasi Mineral - Indoneisa
- Savvy Resources Ltd - HongKong
- Vedanta Resources Plc - India
- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
- Jaiprakash Power Ventures ltd
- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- MS Steel International - UAE
- VISA Power Limited - India
- ASAPP Information Group - India
- Anglo American - United Kingdom
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Karaikal Port Pvt Ltd - India
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Indo Tambangraya Megah - Indonesia
- Borneo Indobara - Indonesia
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- Australian Coal Association
- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
- Gujarat Mineral Development Corp Ltd - India
- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Filglen & Citicon Mining (HK) Ltd - Hong Kong
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- Essar Steel Hazira Ltd - India
- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- Thai Mozambique Logistica
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited - India
- Agrawal Coal Company - India
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
- Aboitiz Power Corporation - Philippines
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- Interocean Group of Companies - India
- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
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