Regulation

Turkey, one of the five major ship recycling countries, has ratified the International Maritime Organizations (IMO) Hong Kong convention, the treaty for safe and environmentally sound ship recycling.

Finland is to permit pilotage to be performed remotely in its territorial waters, after an act of parliament modified the Pilotage Act. The law is expected to enter effect from 1 February…

Norway-based insurer Gard has warned members around the introduction of tighter requirements limiting or prohibiting the operation of open loop exhaust gas reduction (EGR) equipment.

The IMO has reminded members that from 1 January 2019, ships of 5,000 gross tonnage and above need to start collecting data on their fuel-oil consumption, under the mandatory data collection reporting…

Chinese regulators have updated part of its domestic emission control area (DECA) regulations with effect from 1 January 2019 but have not yet placed a full ban on open-loop scrubbers as reported…

ClassNK announced in late December it conducted a demonstration test of a ship class survey using drone technology.

Industry stakeholders will discuss how to help IMO encourage the adoption of low-carbon fuels at a roundtable early next year, with a focus on incentivising early movers.

The Norwegian Maritime Administration (NMA) is planning to ban using scrubbers to comply with a proposed 0.1% fuel sulphur limit in the country’s world heritage fjords, due to come into effect next…