Refers to: Ship Owners / Operators, PH.R.S. RepresentativesAction Date: 1st January 2016 At the 16th meeting of the Port State Control Committee in Batumi, Georgia, April 2015, the Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control in the Black Sea Region (BS MOU) decided to introduce a New Inspection Regime for selection of ships from 1st January 2016 to harmonize further its risk based targeting and inspection system with the leading memorandums, namely Paris MOU and Tokyo MOU, to the highest level. The existing ship targeting system adjusted to accommodate additional generic parameters (e.g. Flag, RO, and Company performances), weighting points…

Refers to: Owners and operators of ships that are subject to air emission controls under MARPOL Annex VI.Action Date: March 1st, 2018 The International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the Resolution MEPC.282(70) on 28th October 2016 with amendments to chapter 4 of Annex VI of MARPOL, adding a new Regulation 22A on Collection And Reporting Of Ship Fuel Oil Consumption Data and new appendices covering Information to be submitted to the IMO Ship Fuel Oil Consumption Database. The new mandatory Fuel Oil Data Collection System applies to international shipping and is requiring ships above 5,000 gross tonnage to start collecting and…

Phoenix Register of Shipping is proud to be among the Silver Sponsors of the Athens Money Show 2017, which will take place at Hilton Athens on January 9th 2017.   PH.R.S being one of the Silver Sponsors is going to actively support the organization of Money Show 2017, which is one of the largest multi-conferences in Europe regarding financial investments & development.   Athens Money Show will be held at Hilton Athens under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, the Hellenic- Chinese Chamber of Commerce and of the Athens Medical Accosiation.   Save the date and visit us at…

Refers to: Ship Owners/ Managers, PHRS Representatives/SurveyorsAction Date: February 21st, 2018 The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC 70), which was held on October 2016, adopted important amendments to MARPOL V (Garbage) and as such the garbage handling procedure, management method, and record keeping method regarding garbage from ships: •    Amended MARPOL V adopted by MEPC.277(70) which will enter into force on 1 March 2018. •    2017 implementation guideline of MARPOL V was amended by MEPC.295(71). Therefore, vessels are required to implement the following by 1 March 2018:  •    Solid bulk cargoes other than grain shall be classified as declared by…

Refers to: All ClientsAction Date: Various According to the new European Regulation (EU) 2015/757 for Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Carbon Dioxide emissions for Shipping (EU MRV), from 1/1/2018 onwards every ship equal to or larger than 5000 GT which has a commercial operation and calls to a European port, is obliged to monitor and report a series of relevant data on to its CO2 emissions. It is estimated that 15,000 ships are affected by the requirements of this Regulation, with each one of them obliged to report those data in an annual basis to the European Commission, after having…