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Revision of MARPOL Annex VI and the NOx Technical Code
The IMO has approved reduced sulphur limits for fuel oils and new NOx emission limits, including limits for pre-2000 ships!
The IMO has approved reduced sulphur limits for fuel oils and new NOx emission limits, including limits for pre-2000 ships!
- New NOx limits
- NOx Emission Limits for Engines Installed on Ships Constructed Prior to 1 January 2000
- New Limits for Sulphur Content in Fuel Oil
- Reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from ships
- Update of the 2000 IMO GHG Study
- Harmful aquatic organisms in ballast water
- Recycling of Ships
- Interpretations of and amendments to MARPOL 73/78 and related instruments
- Harmful anti-fouling systems for ships
- Special Areas and Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSA)
- The Mediterranean Sea; Special Area under MARPOL Annex V
- Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS)
Published in DNV Bulk Carrier Update - July 2008
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Guidelines Through the Jungle of Rules
Directive 2000/59/EC
Directive 2000/59/EC
Information on some special sectors in the EC Directive 2000/59/EC re¬garding the supply and operation with fossil fuel (especially heavy fuel oil), as well as, the disposal of wastes resulting from fuel treatment and preparation.
Here the use of ecologically friendly technologies developed by S.I.T GmbH can lead to savings in operational costs and to a reduction of the total port dues.
Directive 2000/59/EC covers all vessels calling at European ports regardless of their nationality or port of registration. Read more...
Published by S.I.T. GmbH, Hamburg
Here the use of ecologically friendly technologies developed by S.I.T GmbH can lead to savings in operational costs and to a reduction of the total port dues.
Directive 2000/59/EC covers all vessels calling at European ports regardless of their nationality or port of registration. Read more...
Published by S.I.T. GmbH, Hamburg
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Crime doesn't pay
Modern OWS systems, such as Marinfloc's EBBWCS (pictured), are able to better MARPOL requirements and can be monitored from ashore
Incidents of 'magic pipe' bypasses of oil water separators (OWS) and the heavy penalties meted out to offenders still occur with monotonous regularity. Even those tasked with rooting out the offenders are not immune from the nefarious practice, as the prosecution of a USCG officer recently has shown.
It cannot be denied that older models of OWS are sometimes inefficient, prone to breakdown and unpleasant to maintain, but if makers' claims are to be believed that is not true of newer models. Read more...
Fairplay Solutions and Newbuildings - Magazine, October 2008
Incidents of 'magic pipe' bypasses of oil water separators (OWS) and the heavy penalties meted out to offenders still occur with monotonous regularity. Even those tasked with rooting out the offenders are not immune from the nefarious practice, as the prosecution of a USCG officer recently has shown.
It cannot be denied that older models of OWS are sometimes inefficient, prone to breakdown and unpleasant to maintain, but if makers' claims are to be believed that is not true of newer models. Read more...
Fairplay Solutions and Newbuildings - Magazine, October 2008
