Barking up the wrong tree?
An epidemic of ships experiencing fuel-related problems with seemingly on-spec fuels this year, star… Read more…
IBIA achieved NGO consultative status with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in 2005. This gives IBIA the right to attend IMO meetings to represent our industry’s interests and provide relevant expertise to IMO’s work and deliberations.
We continuously scrutinise IMO proceedings on all matters affecting our members to ensure that the interests of the bunker industry are heard. IBIA is active at the IMO through written submissions, interventions from the floor and participation in working groups during IMO meetings. We also take part in IMO Correspondence Groups to progress work on agenda items between meetings.
IBIA keeps an eye on a broad range of IMO issues and attends several meetings every year. The Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) and the Maritime Safety Committee are the main meetings that deal with subjects of relevance to the bunkering industry. We also attend a number of IMO sub-committee meetings, in particular PPR (Pollution Prevention and Response), to monitor and provide input to developments of relevance to IBIA members.
An epidemic of ships experiencing fuel-related problems with seemingly on-spec fuels this year, star… Read more…
IBIA welcomes signs that work may soon get underway on developing a new chapter specifically for oil… Read more…
An IMO sub-committee has completed draft interim guidelines for the safety of ships using methyl/eth… Read more…
The world of bunkers is heading for rapid and fundamental changes and not just because of the 0.50% … Read more…
KNect356 recently asked IBIA to respond to this question: What are the 5 steps everyone should tak… Read more…
IBIA Africa’s seminar, “New Rules, New Fuels, New Era” held on 16 August in Cape Town was host… Read more…
Messi or Ronaldo? Scrubbers or LNG? Everyone has their own personal preference and many have very … Read more…
Confusion about whether the existing ISO 8217 marine fuel quality standard will cover fuel blends pr… Read more…
There appears to be significant support among IMO member States to ensure consistency in fuel oil te… Read more…
Many issues remain unresolved following last week’s intersessional working group (ISWG) meeting at… Read more…