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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, 04 November 19
COAL INDIA'S OCTOBER PRODUCTION MAY FALL 20% - PTI
Coal India’s production in October is likely to be 19-20 per cent lower at about 40 million tonne, as compared to 49.77 million tonne produce ...
Monday, 04 November 19
PANAMAX: WEAKER SENTIMENTS CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK, WITH RATES FURTHER SOFTENING IN BOTH BASINS - BALTIC BRIEFING
Capesize
The Capesize market meandered slightly upwards this week before giving back much of its gains mid-week. Opening the week at $24,945, t ...
Thursday, 31 October 19
U.S. COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS SCHEDULED TO SHUT - REUTERS
U.S. power companies expect to retire or convert from coal to gas over 13,800 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired plants in 2019 after shutting over 13,30 ...
Thursday, 31 October 19
SE ASIA MAY BECOME NET FOSSIL FUEL IMPORTER IN COMING YEARS - IEA
Southeast Asia is set to become a key driver of world energy trends over the next 20 years as its energy demand grows at twice the global average, ...
Monday, 28 October 19
ULTRAMAX: ASIA RATES REMAINED UNDER PRESSURE WITH THE NORTH LACKING FRESH ENQUIRY - BALTIC BRIEFING
Capesize
The end of the week brought about a small increase in sentiment heading into a long weekend for some regions. After sustaining a drop ...
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- Parliament of New Zealand
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- India Bulls Power Limited - India
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- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
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- Economic Council, Georgia
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- Ministry of Mines - Canada
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- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
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- Siam City Cement - Thailand
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- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
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- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
- Savvy Resources Ltd - HongKong
- Indogreen Group - Indonesia
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- The University of Queensland
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- Barasentosa Lestari - Indonesia
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited - India
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- Coalindo Energy - Indonesia
- Bukit Makmur.PT - Indonesia
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
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- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
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- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
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- White Energy Company Limited
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- ASAPP Information Group - India
- Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Videocon Industries ltd - India
- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
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- Salva Resources Pvt Ltd - India
- Cement Manufacturers Association - India
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Posco Energy - South Korea
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
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- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- Jorong Barutama Greston.PT - Indonesia
- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
- Kalimantan Lumbung Energi - Indonesia
- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- PNOC Exploration Corporation - Philippines
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
- Aboitiz Power Corporation - Philippines
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
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- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
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- VISA Power Limited - India
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- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Pipit Mutiara Jaya. PT, Indonesia
- Manunggal Multi Energi - Indonesia
- Deloitte Consulting - India
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
- Anglo American - United Kingdom
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Medco Energi Mining Internasional
- Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd. - India
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Borneo Indobara - Indonesia
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- Truba Alam Manunggal Engineering.Tbk - Indonesia
- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
- OPG Power Generation Pvt Ltd - India
- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
- Timah Investasi Mineral - Indoneisa
- Petrochimia International Co. Ltd.- Taiwan
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk - Indonesia
- Kartika Selabumi Mining - Indonesia
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- Holcim Trading Pte Ltd - Singapore
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Jaiprakash Power Ventures ltd
- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
- Essar Steel Hazira Ltd - India
- Metalloyd Limited - United Kingdom
- Madhucon Powers Ltd - India
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
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- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Carbofer General Trading SA - India
- The Treasury - Australian Government
- Pendopo Energi Batubara - Indonesia
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- PowerSource Philippines DevCo
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
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- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
- Karaikal Port Pvt Ltd - India
- Central Electricity Authority - India
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
- Kumho Petrochemical, South Korea
- Formosa Plastics Group - Taiwan
- Meenaskhi Energy Private Limited - India
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
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- Vedanta Resources Plc - India
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- Sical Logistics Limited - India
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- Planning Commission, India
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- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- PetroVietnam Power Coal Import and Supply Company
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
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- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
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