YOUR VOICE AT THE IMO
Without IBIA, the perspectives and understanding of the bunker industry may not be heard… 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.
Without IBIA, the perspectives and understanding of the bunker industry may not be heard… Read more…
Backlog of papers from MEPC 75 have to wait again as GHG discussions take precedence… Read more…
Intended as a base document which states might adopt voluntarily… Read more…
Use and carriage ban adopted at MEPC 76 set to take effect in July 2024… Read more…
Work plan to make progress on mid- and long-term measures adopted… Read more…
MEPC 76 sees heated debate over package of short-term technical measures… Read more…
Working group ahead of MEPC 76 struggled to reach consensus on accompanying guidelines… Read more…
IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee is looking into concerns about fuel quality impacting on ship safety… Read more…
A fuel with flashpoint below 60°C is not only outside the ISO 8217 specification, it is also a brea… Read more…
Aim is to prevent fuels below SOLAS limit from being supplied to ships…. Read more…