Rivertrace Engineering managing director, Mike Coomber warns that vessels without up-to-date type-approved equipment might not make it on to charterers’ shortlists because they will no longer be eligible to carry biofuel cargoes.
The regulations, embodied in IMO Resolution MEPC.108(49) as amended by MEPC.240(65), require shipboard oil discharge systems to be capable of monitoring biofuels and blends of biofuel and oil product cargoes.
