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- CIMAC guideline: marine fuel handling in connection to stability and compatibility
- CIMAC Guideline: ISO 8217:2017 - FAQ
- Final Report on Evaluation of MARPOL Annex VI regulation 14 Compliance Options for global sulphur cap
- Focus on fuel segregation risks, not contaminated fuel
- FONAR: The expensive tool shipowners should avoid
- Fuel switching – safety alert
- Guidance on low-sulphur fuel oil now available
- IMO 2020 sulphur limit guidelines
- IMO issues guidance for applying 2020 requirements to emergency equipment
- IMO publishes port state control guidance ahead of 1 January 2020
- IMO publishes revised fuel sampling guidelines
- IMO releases guidance on scrubber failure
- IMO: The chance of postponing 1 January 2020 deadline is zero
- Is your crew prepared for 2020
- ISO issue letter of conformity ahead of 2020 sulphur cap
- MARPOL Annex VI ECA compliance and fuel switching
- Most risks associated with new blended fuel are old ones
- BIMCO publishes list of options for discharging scrubber wash water
- Shipowners urgently need a fuel-management plan
- CIMAC Guideline: The Interpretation of Marine Fuel Analysis Test Results
- Why 1 March is your real deadline
- BIMCO's position ongreenhouse gases (GHG) emissions
- The discord between MARPOL and commercial fuel samples interpreted
- Is on board fuel blending allowed?
- BIMCO's position on air pollution
- Decoupling of world trade and emissions is a reality for shipping
- How port State control will sample fuel oil going forward
- Sulphur emission control areas and national sulphur emission restrictions
- What is it about speed that upsets the shipping industry?
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VPS Bunker Alerts
Veritas Petroleum Services (VPS) publish regular Bunker Alerts based entirely on fuel samples. The bunker samples are analysed by VPS whenever a short-term quality issue is identified in a specific port or region.
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Shipping industry needs to talk market-based measures
BIMCO would like to encourage states and the industry to start a dialogue on how to create a global ruleset for market-based measures (MBM) to support the use of low carbon fuels and to create a level playing field for the industry.
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How port State control will sample fuel oil going forward
Amendments to MARPOL Annex VI have been adopted, introducing procedures facilitating port State control’s (PSC) sampling from fuel oil tanks to verify the sulphur content. The amendments will enter into force on 1 April 2022.
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IMO publishes guidelines to port State control for on board fuel oil sampling
The 75th session of International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 75) has in November 2020 adopted amendments to MARPOL Annex VI, introducing a method for fuel oil sampling from ships' fuel oil tanks to verify the sulphur content. The new amendments will enter into force on 1 April 2022.
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Proposal: IMO needs to reconsider draft sewage regulation
Together with a number of member states and international organisations, BIMCO has proposed that the IMO should reconsider the direction, in which the amendment of MARPOL Annex IV has taken concerning existing ships.
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