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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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Wednesday, 13 November 19
INDONESIAN NOVEMBER COAL PRICE REFERENCE LOGS FIRST GAIN SINCE AUGUST
COALspot.com: The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Indonesia has revised up the benchmark price of Indonesian thermal co ...
Wednesday, 13 November 19
SHIPPING MARKET INSIGHT - INTERMODAL
The improvements seen in the dry bulk market during the unexpectedly strong Q3 brought enthusiasm and optimism for a last quarter rally. Indeed as ...
Tuesday, 12 November 19
COAL IMPORTS AT MAJOR PORTS SLIP 18 PC TO 51 MT IN APRIL-OCTOBER - ECONOMIC TIMES
The Indian Ports Association (IPA), which maintains cargo data handled by these 12 ports, in its recent report, said "percentage variation fro ...
Monday, 11 November 19
EMINENT MARITIME ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS WERE HONORED
SHIPTEK 2019 Anchors in Greece for its 12th edition.
Eminent Maritime Organizations and Individuals were honored
Greec ...
Wednesday, 06 November 19
SHIPPING MARKET INSIGHT - INTERMODAL
With less than two months before the end of the year, the shipping and refining industries have already taken measures and invested to accommodate ...
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- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
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- Ministry of Mines - Canada
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- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
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- CNBM International Corporation - China
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- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
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- India Bulls Power Limited - India
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- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
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- Standard Chartered Bank - UAE
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- Bukit Makmur.PT - Indonesia
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
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- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
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- Economic Council, Georgia
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- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
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- Parliament of New Zealand
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- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
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- Romanian Commodities Exchange
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- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
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- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
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- White Energy Company Limited
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- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
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- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- PowerSource Philippines DevCo
- The Treasury - Australian Government
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- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- OPG Power Generation Pvt Ltd - India
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- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- Oldendorff Carriers - Singapore
- Mercator Lines Limited - India
- ICICI Bank Limited - India
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Australian Coal Association
- Cigading International Bulk Terminal - Indonesia
- Petrochimia International Co. Ltd.- Taiwan
- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
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- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
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- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
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- Karbindo Abesyapradhi - Indoneisa
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- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
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- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
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- Posco Energy - South Korea
- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
- London Commodity Brokers - England
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