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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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Saturday, 30 November 19
IMO2020 GLOBAL SULPHUR CUT: GERMAN SHIPPING TO USE NEW TYPE OF FUEL VDR SURVEY
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Friday, 29 November 19
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- Latin American Coal - Colombia
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Lanco Infratech Ltd - India
- Siam City Cement - Thailand
- Sical Logistics Limited - India
- Bukit Makmur.PT - Indonesia
- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
- Asmin Koalindo Tuhup - Indonesia
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Videocon Industries ltd - India
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- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
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- Indogreen Group - Indonesia
- Cigading International Bulk Terminal - Indonesia
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- Marubeni Corporation - India
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
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- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
- Simpson Spence & Young - Indonesia
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- Bulk Trading Sa - Switzerland
- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Sinarmas Energy and Mining - Indonesia
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
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- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
- Savvy Resources Ltd - HongKong
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- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
- Mjunction Services Limited - India
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
- Kideco Jaya Agung - Indonesia
- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Deloitte Consulting - India
- Ambuja Cements Ltd - India
- Australian Coal Association
- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
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- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
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- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
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- Xindia Steels Limited - India
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- Anglo American - United Kingdom
- Pendopo Energi Batubara - Indonesia
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Orica Mining Services - Indonesia
- Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence - India
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- Vizag Seaport Private Limited - India
- Straits Asia Resources Limited - Singapore
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
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- Kepco SPC Power Corporation, Philippines
- Meenaskhi Energy Private Limited - India
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- Kalimantan Lumbung Energi - Indonesia
- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
- Kumho Petrochemical, South Korea
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited - India
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Japan
- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
- Bangladesh Power Developement Board
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Tata Chemicals Ltd - India
- Manunggal Multi Energi - Indonesia
- Timah Investasi Mineral - Indoneisa
- Vedanta Resources Plc - India
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- MS Steel International - UAE
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
- Central Java Power - Indonesia
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Jorong Barutama Greston.PT - Indonesia
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
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- Posco Energy - South Korea
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- White Energy Company Limited
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- Baramulti Group, Indonesia
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- PNOC Exploration Corporation - Philippines
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- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
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- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- Iligan Light & Power Inc, Philippines
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
- Planning Commission, India
- Truba Alam Manunggal Engineering.Tbk - Indonesia
- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
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- Essar Steel Hazira Ltd - India
- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
- Minerals Council of Australia
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
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- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- VISA Power Limited - India
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
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- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
- Thai Mozambique Logistica
- The University of Queensland
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk - Indonesia
- Parliament of New Zealand
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- India Bulls Power Limited - India
- Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
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- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
- Jaiprakash Power Ventures ltd
- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Vijayanagar Sugar Pvt Ltd - India
- Coastal Gujarat Power Limited - India
- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
- Gujarat Mineral Development Corp Ltd - India
- TeaM Sual Corporation - Philippines
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- Karbindo Abesyapradhi - Indoneisa
- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- ASAPP Information Group - India
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
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- Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
- The Treasury - Australian Government
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- Ministry of Mines - Canada
- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
- Economic Council, Georgia
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
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