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New Canadian Arctic shipping rules to cost US$28,000 per ship
CANADIAN Arctic shipping must spend C$25,000 (US$20,000) per vessel to align them with new safety standards and C$10,000 for new equipment to comply with the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, reports Baffin Island's Nunatsiaq News.
The good news is that Transport Canada said Arctic shipping may continue to use cheaper heavy fuel oil (HFO).
The new regulations conform to the Polar Code, developed by the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) brought into force a year ago.
After the draft regulations were published, the World Wildlife Fund asked that Canada's new Arctic pollution rules include a ban on HFOs.
Banning HFOs could add C$1 million to the cost of sealift for Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping operations in the Kitikmeot region, the company said last October during a meeting of western Nunavut mayors.
The new regulations include new safety requirements for vessels that operate in areas of low temperature, such as on-board inflatable life rafts, marine evacuation systems, life boats and rescue boats that can operate at low temperatures.
Discharging sewage from vessels into Arctic waters is allowed by the updated regulations.
A vessel with a gross tonnage of 400 tonnes or a vessel certified to carry more than 15 persons may deposit sewage at distances ranging from between three and 12 nautical miles from an ice shelf or fast ice or, if treated, "as far as practicable from the nearest land, ice-shelf, fast ice or areas of ice concentration exceeding 1/10," the regulations say.
Transport Canada says it will use a graduated enforcement approach, the objective being "to permit industry to take corrective action first, especially for minor infractions, rather than to proceed immediately with issuing monetary penalties and/or summary convictions".
The good news is that Transport Canada said Arctic shipping may continue to use cheaper heavy fuel oil (HFO).
The new regulations conform to the Polar Code, developed by the UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) brought into force a year ago.
After the draft regulations were published, the World Wildlife Fund asked that Canada's new Arctic pollution rules include a ban on HFOs.
Banning HFOs could add C$1 million to the cost of sealift for Nunavut Eastern Arctic Shipping operations in the Kitikmeot region, the company said last October during a meeting of western Nunavut mayors.
The new regulations include new safety requirements for vessels that operate in areas of low temperature, such as on-board inflatable life rafts, marine evacuation systems, life boats and rescue boats that can operate at low temperatures.
Discharging sewage from vessels into Arctic waters is allowed by the updated regulations.
A vessel with a gross tonnage of 400 tonnes or a vessel certified to carry more than 15 persons may deposit sewage at distances ranging from between three and 12 nautical miles from an ice shelf or fast ice or, if treated, "as far as practicable from the nearest land, ice-shelf, fast ice or areas of ice concentration exceeding 1/10," the regulations say.
Transport Canada says it will use a graduated enforcement approach, the objective being "to permit industry to take corrective action first, especially for minor infractions, rather than to proceed immediately with issuing monetary penalties and/or summary convictions".
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