LR Class News 01/2019
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05 February 2019 - Applicability:
Shipowners and operators trading to Chinese ports
From 1 January 2019, a
new regulation from the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration (China MSA)
means ships must report the energy consumption of their last voyage when
entering or leaving ports in China.
Application
This new Regulation on
Data Collection for Energy Consumption of Ships, applies to ships (excluding
warships or fishing vessels), that are:
- Of 400 gross tonnage (GT) and
above; or
- Powered by propulsion machinery of
750 kW and above
- Flying any flag (whether for a
Chinese domestic voyage or international voyage).
Requirements
Before leaving a Chinese
port, a ship must submit to the MSA a report detailing the energy consumption
of the last voyage**, using the “Data Report Format for Energy Consumption of
Ships”, as provided in the Annex of the Regulation.
A ship can submit
monthly, rather than single-voyage reports, provided it is either:
- Sailing in the fixed region with
each voyage duration of 4 hours or less; or
- Sailing a fixed route with each
voyage duration of 12 hours or less
A monthly report
needs to record the energy consumption data daily, or of each voyage, in the
logbook or specified record book. The aggregated data of the last calendar
month then needs to be submitted to the fixed branch of the China MSA of the
related calling port, before the 10th of each month.
Additional requirements,
as detailed in Chapter 3 of the Regulation, apply to China-flagged ships of
5,000 GT and above, which undertake international voyages.
How to report
The required data needs
to be sent electronically via China MSA’s web-based maritime integrated service
system (http://csp.msa.gov.cn).
China-flagged ships can
report by themselves or via an agency.
Non-China flagged ships
need to report via an agency.
Hong Kong-flagged ships
need to report via an agency, as they don’t have an MSA ship identification
number and ship operation certificate, so cannot complete the registration on
the platform as “ship user”.
Advice to shipowners
According to Chapter 2
of the Regulation, internationally voyaging ships do not need to report energy
consumption data for voyages between ports outside China, nor for voyages from
Chinese domestic ports to ports outside China.
* The English
translation is just for reference only.
** “Last
voyage” refers to the navigation, berthing and operation between two adjacent
berths. For example, if the ship sails from Ningbo to Shanghai, before leaving
Shanghai the ship should report the relevant data during the period from the
berthing at Ningbo to the berthing at Shanghai.Full information may be read at,
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