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Hong Kong to mandate low-sulphur fuel, jail time for non-compliance
HONG KONG Legislative Council is to vote on a bill to mandate low-sulphur fuel and regulate emissions of vessels' at berth from 2015, providing heavy fines and jail time for non-compliance.
The Legislative Council is to vote mid-2014 on a bunker sulphur content of not more than 0.5 per cent for oceangoing vessels at berth in Hong Kong.
This would require vessels to make a fuel switch on arrival and complete within one hour until an hour before departure unless the switch risks delay.
"We will seek to implement the new requirement next year," said Chief Executive CY Leung, which once passed would make Hong Kong Asia's first port to make bunker sulphur limits content mandatory.
Non-compliance could result in fines of US$25,800 and six months imprisonment, though the bill does not stipulate who would be liable.
But obstacles arise from the lack of availability of the costly fuel which runs about $1,000 a tonne versus $600 for standard bunker.
The Legislative Council is to vote mid-2014 on a bunker sulphur content of not more than 0.5 per cent for oceangoing vessels at berth in Hong Kong.
This would require vessels to make a fuel switch on arrival and complete within one hour until an hour before departure unless the switch risks delay.
"We will seek to implement the new requirement next year," said Chief Executive CY Leung, which once passed would make Hong Kong Asia's first port to make bunker sulphur limits content mandatory.
Non-compliance could result in fines of US$25,800 and six months imprisonment, though the bill does not stipulate who would be liable.
But obstacles arise from the lack of availability of the costly fuel which runs about $1,000 a tonne versus $600 for standard bunker.
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