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Arctic Council urged to ban Heavy Fuel Oil

A group of fifteen environment groups delivered a letter to the Arctic Council renewing a call on the involved nations to ban the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.The use of heavy fuel oil by shipping in the Arctic could have disastrous consequences. Banning this fuel would protect the region’s rich wildlife, improve human health and benefit the climate

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WSS warns of the dangers and expense under R-22 phase out

Wilhelmsen Ships Service is warning of price, supply and safety risks in the run-up to the global ban on R-22 (chlorodifluoromethane or HCFC) refrigerant. The colourless gas, which has high ozone depletion and global warming potential, is still said to be in use on between 6,000 and 8,000 vessels worldwide.R-22 was outlawed throughout the EU in a process that ran from 2010 to 1st January 2015. It is currently being phased out in the US, where no new or imported R-22 will be permitted from 1 January 2020. As part of the Montreal Protocol (MP), a UN agreement to protect the ozone layer, HCFC use will be phased out in member countries by 2030.“R-22 is a versatile and effective refrigerant gas that has served the shipping industry well, but it is fast approaching the end of the line,” comments Svenn Jacobsen, Technical Product Manager Refrigeration at Wilhelmsen Ships Service.“The compliance deadlines are approaching and this has, quite rightly, impacted tremendously on global production. As availability goes down price and supply risks go up, and this is potentially bad news for the owners of those remaining vessels that still use R-22.”Industry figures indicate that legal global R-22 production this year will ...

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Use of HGO as ballast in the Antarctic is now prohibited

 A change to MARPOL Annex 1 (Chapter 9, Regulation 43) prohibits the use of heavy grade oil (HGO) as ballast in the Antarctic area, which is defined as the sea area south of Latitude 60°S. This new requirement applies to both new and existing ships operating in the Antarctic area from March 1, 2016, and is in addition to the existing Antarctic area ban on carriage of HGO in bulk as cargo or carriage and use as fuel.The remainder of Regulation 43 remains the same. The specification of HGO is unchanged. If previous operations have included the carriage or use of HGOs, cleaning and flushing of oil pipelines is not required. The ban does not apply to vessels engaged in securing the safety of ships or in search and rescue operations.Shipowners and operators need to ensure that ships have the capability to discharge all heavy grade oil to available shore facilities before entering the Antarctic area. Shipbuilders and designers need to ensure that ships intending to travel in the Antarctic area are designed and built to be able to comply with the new regulation. Find further details by reading IMO Circular MEPC.256 (67) on the Amendment to MARPOL Annex ISource: LR In the origin, ...

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