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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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Thursday, 10 January 19
BUNKER DELIVERY NOTE AMENDMENTS ENTER INTO FORCE AS SULPHUR 2020 REQUIREMENT LOOMS - IMO
KNOWLEDGE TO ELEVATE
Amendments to the bunker delivery note relating to the supply of marine fuel oil to ships which have fitted alternative m ...
Thursday, 10 January 19
WORLD TRADE IN THERMAL COAL IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE GROWN BY 1.0 PER CENT IN 2018 - DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, AUSTRALIA
World Trade
World trade in thermal coal is estimated to have grown by 1.0 per cent to 1.1 billion tonnes in 2018 but it is expected to decline ...
Thursday, 10 January 19
PAKISTAN'S COAL IMPORTS TO SURGE TO 30 MILLION TONS PER ANNUM BY 2020 - CEO, PIB
Pakistan’s coal imports are estimated to surge to 30 million tons/annum from existing 20 million tons/annum by the year 2020, given the plann ...
Wednesday, 09 January 19
PANAMAX: THE PACIFIC SAW RELATIVELY GOOD DEMAND PARTICULARLY FROM INDONESIA AND NOPAC - BALTIC BRIEFING
Capesize
It was an active start to the New Year, with trading from West Australia maintaining momentum during the holiday period. Rates for Chi ...
Wednesday, 09 January 19
SHIPPING MARKET INSIGHT - INERMODAL
Paraphrasing the words of a Chief economist in a latest report of the World Bank Group, the current state of the shipping market very much resemble ...
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- Singapore Mercantile Exchange
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- Deloitte Consulting - India
- The Treasury - Australian Government
- Banpu Public Company Limited - Thailand
- Port Waratah Coal Services - Australia
- Gujarat Sidhee Cement - India
- Grasim Industreis Ltd - India
- London Commodity Brokers - England
- Bhoruka Overseas - Indonesia
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- Indian Oil Corporation Limited
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- Siam City Cement PLC, Thailand
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- Renaissance Capital - South Africa
- Indogreen Group - Indonesia
- Sarangani Energy Corporation, Philippines
- IHS Mccloskey Coal Group - USA
- Trasteel International SA, Italy
- Indonesian Coal Mining Association
- Intertek Mineral Services - Indonesia
- Heidelberg Cement - Germany
- LBH Netherlands Bv - Netherlands
- Pendopo Energi Batubara - Indonesia
- Price Waterhouse Coopers - Russia
- Economic Council, Georgia
- Coal and Oil Company - UAE
- India Bulls Power Limited - India
- GMR Energy Limited - India
- Merrill Lynch Commodities Europe
- Indika Energy - Indonesia
- Kaltim Prima Coal - Indonesia
- Sakthi Sugars Limited - India
- Larsen & Toubro Limited - India
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- Dr Ramakrishna Prasad Power Pvt Ltd - India
- Globalindo Alam Lestari - Indonesia
- Binh Thuan Hamico - Vietnam
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- Star Paper Mills Limited - India
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- Aboitiz Power Corporation - Philippines
- Global Business Power Corporation, Philippines
- Thai Mozambique Logistica
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- Simpson Spence & Young - Indonesia
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- Meralco Power Generation, Philippines
- Offshore Bulk Terminal Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Energy Development Corp, Philippines
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- The State Trading Corporation of India Ltd
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- Samtan Co., Ltd - South Korea
- Sree Jayajothi Cements Limited - India
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- IEA Clean Coal Centre - UK
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- Parry Sugars Refinery, India
- Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd - Australia
- GN Power Mariveles Coal Plant, Philippines
- Filglen & Citicon Mining (HK) Ltd - Hong Kong
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- Independent Power Producers Association of India
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- Parliament of New Zealand
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- Alfred C Toepfer International GmbH - Germany
- Wilmar Investment Holdings
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- Power Finance Corporation Ltd., India
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- Bahari Cakrawala Sebuku - Indonesia
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- SMG Consultants - Indonesia
- New Zealand Coal & Carbon
- Georgia Ports Authority, United States
- Metalloyd Limited - United Kingdom
- Billiton Holdings Pty Ltd - Australia
- Oldendorff Carriers - Singapore
- Gujarat Mineral Development Corp Ltd - India
- Bayan Resources Tbk. - Indonesia
- Mercuria Energy - Indonesia
- Global Green Power PLC Corporation, Philippines
- International Coal Ventures Pvt Ltd - India
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- Kumho Petrochemical, South Korea
- Uttam Galva Steels Limited - India
- Makarim & Taira - Indonesia
- San Jose City I Power Corp, Philippines
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