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Poulsson (ICS): with the effectiveness in 2020 of the new norms on the bunker it could begin a period of "chaos and confusion" for the shipping
Al moment - it has emphasized - nobody knows which types of fuel will be available or which price, detailed lists and amount
May 23, 2018
On January 1°, 2020, when the amendments to annexed YOU of the international convention Marpol for the prevention of the pollution caused from the Maritime ships of the International Organization (IMO take effect) that they fix to 0.50% in mass the limit of the sulfur tenor in fuel to marine use, risk to being a critical date for the field of the marine transport, that it could mark the beginning of a period of "chaos and confusion". The alarm has been launch from shipowning association international ICS, that the introduction of this limit has sped up the IMO to resolve urgently some regarding issues.
"The industry of the shipping - the president of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS has explained), Esben Poulsson - is totally in favor of the limit to the tenor of sulfur established from the IMO and the environmental benefits that it will bring, and it is ready to accept the meaningful increase of the costs of the fuel that will achieve some. But if in the next few months the governments will not face in satisfactory way a series of serious problems - Poulsson has perceived - regulating marine traffic could be dangerously hindered".
The president of the ICS has specified which are the problems to resolve: "it is not still clear - he has specified - if within on January 1°, 2020 sufficient consistent fuel amount they will be available in all the ports of the world. And in absence of total standards for many of new fuel mixtures that the refineries have promised, there are some serious potential risks for safety had to the incompatible fuel use".
Wishing that the governments complete meaningful progresses in order to resolve these problems in the course of next specific the meeting near the IMO that will hold the next July, Poulsson has emphasized that "it steer, refineries and charters of ships that will have to be assumed the costs of fuel must all understand that the ships will have to begin to acquire consistent fuel on January 1°, 2020 various months before. But at the moment nobody knows which types of fuel will be available or which price, detailed lists and amount. Unless all do not take care with urgency of these problems - it has concluded Poulsson - could find of forehead to tremendous chaos with which blocked ships and goods in port".
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On January 1°, 2020, when the amendments to annexed YOU of the international convention Marpol for the prevention of the pollution caused from the Maritime ships of the International Organization (IMO take effect) that they fix to 0.50% in mass the limit of the sulfur tenor in fuel to marine use, risk to being a critical date for the field of the marine transport, that it could mark the beginning of a period of "chaos and confusion". The alarm has been launch from shipowning association international ICS, that the introduction of this limit has sped up the IMO to resolve urgently some regarding issues.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
