Elisabeth Birch, Senior Claims Executive and Jamie Wallace Legal Director of The Standard Club, on Thursday (30 April) published a comprehensive guide on handling bunker claims post IMO 2020:
IMO 2020 has wide implications for all parties involved in the physical shipping chain, and will involve increased risk, responsibility and costs. The Bunker Claims Handling Guide for a new decade, introduces Members to some of the issues that may arise when seeking to comply with the Sulphur Cap and Carriage Ban, as well as likely areas of dispute under time and voyage charterparties, bunker supply contracts.
We would like to thank Alessio Sbraga and Joseph Malpas from HFW for their assistance and contribution with this article.
A full copy of IMO 2020 – Bunker Claims Handling Guide for a new decade can be downloaded here.
Photo credit and source: The Standard Club
Published: 4 May, 2020
Spanish bunker ports supplied 28% less fuel in June than a year earlier but showed an improvement from May, when the overall fell by 35% year on year, it said.
MSC’s container ship Santa Vanessa received 1,000 metric tonnes of bunker fuel in this trial operation that aims to elevate China’s marine services sector.
This is the highest ever recorded output in a single month and the feat was also in recognition of the Chinese Commmunist Party’s 100th Anniversary, it said.
Zenrock is in debt upwards of USD 166 million as of April, and is said to be winding down with employees leaving by August, reports The Business Times.
The Standard Club provides a summary of key points for IMO 2020 enforcement in Chinese waters by local port state authorities.
Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR) meets this week from 18 to 22 February.
Caroline Yang, President of SSA, addresses issues earlier raised by players; including PMC No. 04, the seven-day restriction, contactless bunkering, sampling point, hose connection, and more.
IBIA Asia, ABIS, sources from Singapore’s bunkering and surveying companies, and an industry veteran share with Manifold Times the issues expected from MPA’s latest Covid-19 measures.
The top three positive movers in the 2020 bunker supplier list are Hong Lam Fuels Pte Ltd (+13); Chevron Singapore Pte Ltd (+12); and SK Energy International (+8), according to MPA list.
‘We will operate in the Singapore bunkering market from the Tokyo, with support from local staff at Sumitomo Corporation Singapore,’ source tells Manifold Times.
Changes include abolishing advance declaration of bunkers as dangerous cargo, reducing pilotage fees on vessels receiving bunkers, and a ‘whitelist’ system for bunker tankers.
Claim relates to deliveries of MGO to the vessels Pacific Diligence, Pacific Valkyrie, Pacific Defiance, Crest Alpha 1, and Pacific Warlock between March 2020 to April 2020.
