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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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Monday, 18 November 19
SUPRAMAX: IN THE INDONESIAN COAL BUSINESS, A 58KDWT VESSEL FIXED DELIVERY PHILIPPINES, REDELIVERY INDIA AT CLOSE TO $8,000 - BALTIC BRIEFING
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For most of the week the rates were nudging up under a flurry of activity in the Pacific as levels for the West Australia to China C5 ...
Saturday, 16 November 19
LIFE AFTER FOSSIL FUELS: THE DAYS OF OIL AND COAL TRANSPORTATION ARE NUMBERED - BALTIC EXCHANGE
With the world fiercely focused on a decarbonised future, fossil fuel movers and traders might rightly be reconsidering their future. But cast a wi ...
Saturday, 16 November 19
OIL MARKET REPORT: PAUSING TO REFLECT - IEA
Global oil demand in 3Q19 increased by 1.1 mb/d year-on-year (y-o-y), more than double the 435 kb/d seen in 2Q19. China’s demand increased by ...
Friday, 15 November 19
RISING ENERGY DEMAND IN SOUTHEAST ASIA TO BE MET AND SUPPORTED BY COAL - WORLD COAL
Last week the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its semi-annual Southeast Asia Energy Outlook report which outlines the latest insights in ...
Thursday, 14 November 19
EIA EXPECTS U.S. STEAM COAL EXPORTS TO FACE INCREASING COMPETITION FROM EASTERN EUROPEAN SOURCES
EIA expects total U.S. coal production in 2019 to total 698 million short tons (MMst), an 8% decrease from the 2018 level of 756 MMst. The decline ...
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- Indian Energy Exchange, India
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- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
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- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
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- Planning Commission, India
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- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
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- Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
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- Kideco Jaya Agung - Indonesia
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
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- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Economic Council, Georgia
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- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
- Coalindo Energy - Indonesia
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
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- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Interocean Group of Companies - India
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
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- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
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- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
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- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
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- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
- Deloitte Consulting - India
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- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
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- Filglen & Citicon Mining (HK) Ltd - Hong Kong
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- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
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- London Commodity Brokers - England
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- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
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- ASAPP Information Group - India
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
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- Minerals Council of Australia
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- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
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- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
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- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Japan
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
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- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
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- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
- PowerSource Philippines DevCo
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- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- Kartika Selabumi Mining - Indonesia
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
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- Agrawal Coal Company - India
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- Cement Manufacturers Association - India
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
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