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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, 24 June 19
KOMIPO INVITED BITUMINOUS COAL BIDS FOR BORYEONG & SHIN BORYEONG POWER PLANTS
South Korea state-owned utility Korea Midland Power (KOMIPO) issued a tender for 260,000 MT MT of min. 5700 NAR coal and 240,000 MT of min. 4,600 k ...
Sunday, 23 June 19
SUPRAMAX: A 56,000-DWT WAS FIXED FROM INDONESIA TO VIETNAM AT $10,000 - BALTIC BRIEFING
Capesize
The story over the past week has been largely Atlantic dominated as the basin’s uniquely volatile characteristics came into play ...
Saturday, 22 June 19
OPEC'S BATTLE FOR CONTROL OF THE OIL MARKET - WOOD MACKENZIE
Oil supply is confounding expectations. We have just raised our forecasts for non-OPEC production, the latest in a series of incremental increases. ...
Friday, 21 June 19
INDONESIA'S BAYAN RESOURCES SIGNED A COAL SUPPLY AGREEMENT WITH THE BANGLADESH BCPCL TO SUPPLY 23 MILLION TONS OF COAL FOR 10 YEARS
On Monday, 17th June 2019, PT. Bayan Resources signed a Coal supply Agreement with the Bangladesh- China Power Company (Pvt.) Limited. BCPCL is a j ...
Thursday, 20 June 19
BUMI RESOURCES EXPECTS TO SELL 42 MILLION TONS OF COAL IN FIRST HALF - JAKARTA POST
PT Bumi Resources (BUMI), Indonesia's largest thermal coal miner, expects to close the first half of this year with coal sales of 42 million to ...
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- Madhucon Powers Ltd - India
- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- Videocon Industries ltd - India
- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
- Simpson Spence & Young - Indonesia
- Salva Resources Pvt Ltd - India
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- OPG Power Generation Pvt Ltd - India
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Aboitiz Power Corporation - Philippines
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- Deloitte Consulting - India
- Iligan Light & Power Inc, Philippines
- PNOC Exploration Corporation - Philippines
- Essar Steel Hazira Ltd - India
- PTC India Limited - India
- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- MS Steel International - UAE
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
- Siam City Cement - Thailand
- TeaM Sual Corporation - Philippines
- Karaikal Port Pvt Ltd - India
- Ind-Barath Power Infra Limited - India
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- VISA Power Limited - India
- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Thiess Contractors Indonesia
- Truba Alam Manunggal Engineering.Tbk - Indonesia
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- Central Java Power - Indonesia
- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- Cement Manufacturers Association - India
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- Kapuas Tunggal Persada - Indonesia
- Kideco Jaya Agung - Indonesia
- Coastal Gujarat Power Limited - India
- Manunggal Multi Energi - Indonesia
- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
- Electricity Authority, New Zealand
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- ICICI Bank Limited - India
- India Bulls Power Limited - India
- Metalloyd Limited - United Kingdom
- Asmin Koalindo Tuhup - Indonesia
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- Planning Commission, India
- Sinarmas Energy and Mining - Indonesia
- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
- Toyota Tsusho Corporation, Japan
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
- Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Formosa Plastics Group - Taiwan
- The University of Queensland
- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
- Parliament of New Zealand
- Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence - India
- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
- Indogreen Group - Indonesia
- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
- Ambuja Cements Ltd - India
- Pipit Mutiara Jaya. PT, Indonesia
- PetroVietnam Power Coal Import and Supply Company
- Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd. - India
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
- Vijayanagar Sugar Pvt Ltd - India
- Borneo Indobara - Indonesia
- Meenaskhi Energy Private Limited - India
- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Kalimantan Lumbung Energi - Indonesia
- White Energy Company Limited
- Standard Chartered Bank - UAE
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
- Tata Chemicals Ltd - India
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- Riau Bara Harum - Indonesia
- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- Orica Mining Services - Indonesia
- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
- Miang Besar Coal Terminal - Indonesia
- Kartika Selabumi Mining - Indonesia
- Marubeni Corporation - India
- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
- Ministry of Mines - Canada
- Latin American Coal - Colombia
- Mercator Lines Limited - India
- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- Anglo American - United Kingdom
- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Kumho Petrochemical, South Korea
- Filglen & Citicon Mining (HK) Ltd - Hong Kong
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- Posco Energy - South Korea
- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- Bangladesh Power Developement Board
- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Straits Asia Resources Limited - Singapore
- Jorong Barutama Greston.PT - Indonesia
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
- Jaiprakash Power Ventures ltd
- The Treasury - Australian Government
- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- Thai Mozambique Logistica
- Timah Investasi Mineral - Indoneisa
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
- PowerSource Philippines DevCo
- Central Electricity Authority - India
- Vizag Seaport Private Limited - India
- Makarim & Taira - Indonesia
- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
- Baramulti Group, Indonesia
- Australian Coal Association
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Coalindo Energy - Indonesia
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Commonwealth Bank - Australia
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Mintek Dendrill Indonesia
- Bhatia International Limited - India
- Holcim Trading Pte Ltd - Singapore
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- ASAPP Information Group - India
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- Oldendorff Carriers - Singapore
- Minerals Council of Australia
- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
- Carbofer General Trading SA - India
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- Lanco Infratech Ltd - India
- Bukit Makmur.PT - Indonesia
- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- Indo Tambangraya Megah - Indonesia
- Barasentosa Lestari - Indonesia
- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
- Economic Council, Georgia
- Orica Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Petrochimia International Co. Ltd.- Taiwan
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Sical Logistics Limited - India
- Medco Energi Mining Internasional
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Xindia Steels Limited - India
- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, - India
- Pendopo Energi Batubara - Indonesia
- Gujarat Mineral Development Corp Ltd - India
- Kepco SPC Power Corporation, Philippines
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited - India
- CNBM International Corporation - China
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk - Indonesia
- Semirara Mining Corp, Philippines
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
- Karbindo Abesyapradhi - Indoneisa
- Interocean Group of Companies - India
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
- Agrawal Coal Company - India
- Vedanta Resources Plc - India
- Bulk Trading Sa - Switzerland
- Mjunction Services Limited - India
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- Cigading International Bulk Terminal - Indonesia
- Savvy Resources Ltd - HongKong
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
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