Goh Chung Hun, MPA’s Director of Marine: “Singapore is committed to reducing the environmental impact of shipping.”
The Maritime as well as Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) reports that, in the initial quarter of 2020, a lot of ships calling at the Port of Singapore have actually abided by the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2020 sulfur laws that entered impact on January 1.
Pre- arrival notice sent to the MPA from January to March 2020 revealed that concerning 96% of the ships that got here in the Port of Singapore utilized certified gas. This omits ships set up with open-loop scrubbers that switched over to making use of certified gas upon getting here in the Port of Singapore.
In the initial quarter of 2020, MPA performed an overall of 326 Port State Control (PSC) as well as Flag State Control (FSC) assessments in the Port ofSingapore
During these assessments, MPA located that 12 ships that were not fitted with scrubbers were making use of gas that partially went beyond the sulfur restriction. This was most likely as a result of remnant deposits of high-sulfur gas in the gas oil containers as well as piping. It is anticipated that in time, the gas oil containers as well as piping will certainly be effectively purged with the regular use certified gas. MPA has actually educated the corresponding supervisors as well as flag managements of these ships concerning the non-compliance.
Additionally, 2 foreign-registered ships were located to be making use of non-compliant gas. They were each released a PSC apprehension order, as well as were just enabled to leave from the Port of Singapore after it was validated that they had actually switched over to making use of certified gas.
In light of Singapore’s restriction on the discharge of clean water from open-loop scrubbers, no ship set up with an open-loop scrubber was located to be running its scrubber in the Port of Singapore.
SINGAPORE-REGISTERED SHIPS OUTSIDE SINGAPORE
During the initial 3 months of 2020, there was no Singapore- signed up ship apprehended by port state authorities for non-compliance with the IMO 2020 laws. Two ships reported the non-availability of certified gas, as well as sent the needed Fuel Oil Non-Availability Report
Amongst the handful of Singapore- signed up ships set up with scrubbers, there were 31 records of scrubber breakdown as at February 29, 2020.
Mr Goh Chung Hun, MPA’s Director of Marine, claimed, “As a leading maritime nation, Singapore is committed to reducing the environmental impact of shipping. By engaging the industry proactively, providing the necessary technical guidance and maintaining an adequate supply of compliant fuel in Singapore, we have ensured a high degree of compliance with IMO 2020 sulfur regulations. Singapore will continue to play its part to make shipping clean and sustainable.”
