- Port state control authorities are lenient when confronted with cases of marginal non-compliance with the 0.50% sulfur cap.
- While the law does not set out details on how to handle cases where fuel is tested at just over the 0.50% limit, the authorities appear not to be pursuing these cases.
Port state control authorities (PSCs) are largely showing flexibility when confronted with cases of marginal non-compliance with the 0.50% sulfur cap, reports Ship & Bunker. Singapore-based law firm Rajah & Tann sheds light on this.
Leniency on sulphur non-compliance
V Bala, a partner for shipping and international trade at Rajah & Tann said, “While the law does not set out details on how to handle cases where fuel is tested at just over the 0.50% limit, the authorities appear not to be pursuing these cases,” in a SIBCON webinar on legal issues.
“Today I think if there’s a very slight non-compliance .. practically speaking, what we have seen of how the authorities have reacted to very slight, 0.51% [cases], we have not seen any enforcement or prosecution, or demands that the vessel be debunkered,” he said.
Max Lim, another partner at Rahah & Tann, will be speaking at the IBIA Annual Convention 2020 in November.
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Source: Ship & Bunker
