MEPC74

Delft’s Preliminary Scrubbers Assessment Shows Negligible Port Impact: MEPC74

The Clean Shipping Alliance (CSA) 2020 says that the preliminary results of an independent study indicate that accumulated concentrations of residues from exhaust gas scrubber wash water are at very low levels and well below applicable regulatory limits, reports MarineLog.

What does it indicate?

CSA 2020 Executive Committee Member Poul Woodall, Director, Environment & Sustainability, DFDS, said: “So far, for all parameters considered, the equilibrium concentrations are indicating annualized...

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MEPC74 Fuel and Machinery Impact Guidelines

The recently concluded MEPC74 meeting held in London last month put forward some valuable guidelines regarding fuel and machinery problems which are of paramount importance to shipowners and operators as they prepare for the big switch to scrubbers and low sulfur fuel. Here’s an excerpt from that Guidelines as made public IMO on their website.

Machinery Should Be Capable

The experiences and lessons learned from the transition to the 0.10% m/m SOX-ECA
limit indicated that current ship machinery...

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MEPC74 Fuel Oil Non-Availability Report (FONAR) Guidelines

The recently concluded MEPC74 meeting held in London Last has set a guideline report on what needs to be done in case of non-availability of compliant and how to report it in different ports during inspections. Here’s a detailed insight on that report as made public by the IMO.

About the Report

This report is to be sent to the flag Administration and to the competent authorities in
the relevant port(s) of destination in accordance with regulation 18.2.4 of MARPOL Annex VI.

  1. The report shall be...

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