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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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- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
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- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
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- AsiaOL BioFuels Corp., Philippines
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- Neyveli Lignite Corporation Ltd, - India
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- Rio Tinto Coal - Australia
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
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- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd
- Ministry of Mines - Canada
- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Aditya Birla Group - India
- Meenaskhi Energy Private Limited - India
- TNB Fuel Sdn Bhd - Malaysia
- Global Coal Blending Company Limited - Australia
- PTC India Limited - India
- Indogreen Group - Indonesia
- Bulk Trading Sa - Switzerland
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- Chamber of Mines of South Africa
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- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- Siam City Cement - Thailand
- Ministry of Transport, Egypt
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- Filglen & Citicon Mining (HK) Ltd - Hong Kong
- Bukit Makmur.PT - Indonesia
- Eastern Energy - Thailand
- Kohat Cement Company Ltd. - Pakistan
- Australian Coal Association
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- McConnell Dowell - Australia
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
- Makarim & Taira - Indonesia
- Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc, Philippines
- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
- Jorong Barutama Greston.PT - Indonesia
- Goldman Sachs - Singapore
- Semirara Mining and Power Corporation, Philippines
- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
- Maheswari Brothers Coal Limited - India
- Vijayanagar Sugar Pvt Ltd - India
- Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd. - India
- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Kepco SPC Power Corporation, Philippines
- Thiess Contractors Indonesia
- Ceylon Electricity Board - Sri Lanka
- Iligan Light & Power Inc, Philippines
- CIMB Investment Bank - Malaysia
- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Planning Commission, India
- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- The University of Queensland
- Sindya Power Generating Company Private Ltd
- Jindal Steel & Power Ltd - India
- Coastal Gujarat Power Limited - India
- Edison Trading Spa - Italy
- Kobexindo Tractors - Indoneisa
- Antam Resourcindo - Indonesia
- Formosa Plastics Group - Taiwan
- Independent Power Producers Association of India
- Petron Corporation, Philippines
- Sojitz Corporation - Japan
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Indo Tambangraya Megah - Indonesia
- SMC Global Power, Philippines
- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
- TeaM Sual Corporation - Philippines
- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Malabar Cements Ltd - India
- Salva Resources Pvt Ltd - India
- White Energy Company Limited
- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
- Therma Luzon, Inc, Philippines
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- OPG Power Generation Pvt Ltd - India
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
- South Luzon Thermal Energy Corporation
- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
- India Bulls Power Limited - India
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- Bharathi Cement Corporation - India
- Altura Mining Limited, Indonesia
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- CNBM International Corporation - China
- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
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- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- PowerSource Philippines DevCo
- Jaiprakash Power Ventures ltd
- Dalmia Cement Bharat India
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- PetroVietnam Power Coal Import and Supply Company
- Riau Bara Harum - Indonesia
- Carbofer General Trading SA - India
- Cement Manufacturers Association - India
- Tamil Nadu electricity Board
- Chettinad Cement Corporation Ltd - India
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- Oldendorff Carriers - Singapore
- Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission - India
- Deloitte Consulting - India
- Indian Energy Exchange, India
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- Videocon Industries ltd - India
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- Baramulti Group, Indonesia
- European Bulk Services B.V. - Netherlands
- Australian Commodity Traders Exchange
- Xindia Steels Limited - India
- MS Steel International - UAE
- Eastern Coal Council - USA
- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
- Tata Chemicals Ltd - India
- GAC Shipping (India) Pvt Ltd
- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
- Aboitiz Power Corporation - Philippines
- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- Mercator Lines Limited - India
- Truba Alam Manunggal Engineering.Tbk - Indonesia
- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Medco Energi Mining Internasional
- Africa Commodities Group - South Africa
- Bhushan Steel Limited - India
- Kideco Jaya Agung - Indonesia
- Bangladesh Power Developement Board
- GVK Power & Infra Limited - India
- Ministry of Finance - Indonesia
- Straits Asia Resources Limited - Singapore
- SN Aboitiz Power Inc, Philippines
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
- Minerals Council of Australia
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
- Bukit Baiduri Energy - Indonesia
- Wood Mackenzie - Singapore
- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Vedanta Resources Plc - India
- Energy Link Ltd, New Zealand
- Ambuja Cements Ltd - India
- Directorate General of MIneral and Coal - Indonesia
- VISA Power Limited - India
- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
- Romanian Commodities Exchange
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
- Cigading International Bulk Terminal - Indonesia
- Marubeni Corporation - India
- Mjunction Services Limited - India
- Lanco Infratech Ltd - India
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
- Savvy Resources Ltd - HongKong
- Ind-Barath Power Infra Limited - India
- Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited - India
- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
- Madhucon Powers Ltd - India
- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
- Bhatia International Limited - India
- Gujarat Mineral Development Corp Ltd - India
- Attock Cement Pakistan Limited
- Dong Bac Coal Mineral Investment Coporation - Vietnam
- Economic Council, Georgia
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- Karaikal Port Pvt Ltd - India
- Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand
- Central Java Power - Indonesia
- Petrochimia International Co. Ltd.- Taiwan
- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- GMR Energy Limited - India
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