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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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- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
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- Parliament of New Zealand
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- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
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- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
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- Bulk Trading Sa - Switzerland
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- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence - India
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- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Siam City Cement - Thailand
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Simpson Spence & Young - Indonesia
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- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
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- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- ICICI Bank Limited - India
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
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- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Anglo American - United Kingdom
- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Kalimantan Lumbung Energi - Indonesia
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
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- Economic Council, Georgia
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- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
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- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
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- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
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- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
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- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
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- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
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- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
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- Coalindo Energy - Indonesia
- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
- London Commodity Brokers - England
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- Posco Energy - South Korea
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
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- MS Steel International - UAE
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- Metalloyd Limited - United Kingdom
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- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
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- Thai Mozambique Logistica
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- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- VISA Power Limited - India
- Essar Steel Hazira Ltd - India
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
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- Bhatia International Limited - India
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- The University of Queensland
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
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- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
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- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
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- Planning Commission, India
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- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
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