31MAY2019 - NEWS - IMO to further consider bunker licensing scheme as 2020 sulfur limit rule looms

Aspects relating to a proposal to the International Maritime Organization for a licensing scheme for bunker suppliers will likely be discussed further next year as pressure mounts from shipping organizations for more regulation on the supply side, the International Bunker Industry Association said Tuesday.

This will likely be considered either at the seventh session of the IMO’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response in February 2020, or the 75th session of IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee, which has been scheduled to run at the end of March/start of April next year, IBIA said on its website.

The proposal in MEPC 74/5/4, submitted by ICS, BIMCO, INTERTANKO, INTERCARGO, IPTA and WSC, said addressing fuel safety-related matters by making bunker supplier licensing mandatory under MARPOL Annex VI was supported by the IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee.

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