EU organisation Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) has started checks on producers of blend stocks and traders who blend heavy fuel oil for sea-going vessels due to non-compliance with European rules for chemicals.
“Often, residues of production processes from refineries and the chemical industry are processed in heavy fuel oil for sea-going vessels,” it explains.
“Since accurate track is not kept of what is added to the blends, heavy fuel oil may be produced that represents an unknown risk to people and the environment when stored, transhipped or burnt in vessel engines.”
The ILT believes that the Waste Act has been breached in some cases. This involved blend stocks with, for example, an organochlorine content that was too high (which might lead to toxic dioxin in the exhaust gases of the sea-going vessels).
Due to the ILT inspections, the Vereniging van Onafhankelijke Tankopslagbedrijven (VOTOB; Association of Independent Tank Storage Companies) is, for example, drawing up a guidance for compliance with environmental rules.
The ILT will push to start a comparable procedure at the Vereniging van de Nederlandse Chemische Industrie (VNCI; Association of the Dutch Chemical Industry) and the Vereniging Nederlandse Petrochemische Industrie (VNPI; Association of the Dutch Petrochemical Industry).
Published: 13 July, 2018
Creditors are to produce proofs of debt to liquidators of Southernpec (Singapore) Shipping Pte Ltd by 6 June 2022, according to latest Government Gazette notice.
2nd Reconnaissance Group inspected the wooden hulled ship “KG 95945 TS” on 14 July and found no supporting documents proving the origin of the oil.
Investigation showed ‘an error in the turning manoeuvre carried out by PIREAS’ said the port authority.
The application was filed on 18 September, and a hearing has been scheduled for 10.00 am on Friday (9 October) at the High Court of the Republic of Singapore.
Aeturnum Energy International and China Wanda Holding Group Co Ltd were entities affected by fraud allegations of Singapore-based Hontop Energy.
US sanctions have given rise to the Dark Web of Shipping and Covid-19 is likely to force shipowners to take unprecedented risks and supply to ‘black ships’, says Partner.
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Digitalisation makes it easier for shipowners to conform to growing external regulations such as new sulphur regulations and ‘no scrubber’ zones; operators can identify better bunkering options to reduce costs.
Eventual adoption of Digital Bunker Document Standard speeds up interoperability between stakeholders from both public and private sectors, learns Singapore bunkering publication Manifold Times.
Rob Ashton, Market Manager of Infineum, explains how Infineum B402 is a relatively easy way for a ship operator to positively influence a vessel’s CII rating while improving its bunker fuel consumption performance.
Fifteen incidents of misappropriation of Shell gasoil worth USD 10,4 million went undetected by Shell between 2016 to 2017 due to Muhammad Ali Bin Muhammad Nor’s involvement, learned Manifold Times.
ISO delegates represented seven countries and were in Singapore to attend a three-day meeting of ISO WG13 to develop two new ISO bunkering standards, learns Singapore bunkering publication Manifold Times.
