Sunday, June 29, 2025
Home Most Visited - Newsletter Miscarriage of HFO lands MSC vessel in hot water

Miscarriage of HFO lands MSC vessel in hot water

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Federal Transport Authority (FTA) has said it has forbidden the MSC Joanna to enter its ports for a year and has banned its master from calling at UAE ports after the vessel entered its waters carrying 700tonnes of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in contravention of the carriage of fuels regulation enforced from 1 March 2020.

International Maritime Organization (IMO) rules prevent vessels that are not fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) from carrying HFO, however, as the regulations have only just been imposed some vessels maybe left with residual fuel in their tanks and this fuel is proving difficult to get rid of.

Some countries allow the debunkering and disposal to take place in port, with the HFO being treated as waste oil. The 9200TEU MSC Joanna, however, had been warned to debunker the HFO before calling at Jebel Ali, but it did not heed the request according to the FTA notice.





Latest Posts

C.H. Robinson offers technology execution capabilities for Item-Level Solutions

C.H. Robinson is expanding access to its industry-leading Item-Level Solutions, making them available to its entire global customer base. These solutions offer unprecedented end-to-end visibility...

UWL announces vessel partnership with Emirates Shipping Line

UWL, a leading American-owned NVOCC (Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier) and global logistics provider, welcomes Emirates Shipping Line as the new vessel partner for its...

Sea-Intelligence: Port Power Rankings

 Sea-Intelligence analyses port performance in terms of schedule reliability, across the 202 deep-sea ports with the largest number of container vessel calls, by creating...

Suez slowdown reshapes Red Sea’s port map

The macro picture of the Red Sea is worsen as canal transits are at half-mast, and the region has relinquished its role as the...

We asked AI: When containers become pools

We asked AI what a container might look like if it was trasformed into a pool. The result? Long steel containers, many of them stacked,...
error: Content is protected !!