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Albion Marine Solutions attended the Connecticut Maritime Association (CMA) Shipping event. Mr. Andre Zibrov (Director of Business Development Europe) and Ms. Georgina Padilla (Digital Marketing Specialist) had discussions about Albion’s project portfolio: scrubbers, BWTS, hybrid power, and offshore conversions with potential and existing clients

IMO’S Facilitation Committee addresses the efficiency of shipping by dealing with all matters related to the facilitation of international maritime traffic. The committee is meeting for it’s 43rd session, coinciding with the entry into effect of new requires for all public authorities to introduce electronic exchange of information between ships and ports. The Committee is expected to work on harmonization and develop Guidelines for setting up a single window system in maritime transport. More Information

From January 1st, 2019, 5,000 gross tonnage and above began collecting data on their fuel-oil consumption, under the mandatory data collection reporting requirements which enter into force in March 2018. The MARPOL Annex IV regulation on collecting and reporting of ship fuel oil consumption data requires ships of 5,000 gross tonnage and above to collect consumption data for each type of fuel oil they use, as well as other, specified data including proxies for transport work. More information

2020 will be a mess from fuel oil stability and compatibility point of view. 2020 is clearly price-driven, so the temptation to “cut corners” is great, meaning a set of highly variable number of blend components to manufacture the fuel oil will open a “Pandora’s Box” of large number of complex and questionable formulations. Read more.