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Pains or Mass Hysteria?

submissions to an IMO meeting to be held in July 2018 to ad- months in advance of 1 January 2020 ... but at the moment, dress many of these implementation issues. Submissions from no one knows what types of fuel will be available or at what industry include papers on a standardized format for a ship price, specifcation or in what quantity. Unless everyone gets specifc implementation plan, safety implications associated to grips with this quickly we could be faced with an unholy with 2020 fuels, a draft standard for reporting fuel oil non- mess with ships and cargo being stuck in port.” availability, requirements for sampling points and verifcation and control mechanisms.

The Author Kathy J. Metcalf

As ICS Chairman Esben Poulsson stated, noting industry’s is President & CEO at the Chamber of Shipping of America. Kathy full support for a smooth and timely implementation of the graduated from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1978 with a global cap, “Unless a number of serious issues are satisfactori-

Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Transportation and Nautical Sci- ly addressed by governments within the next few months, the ences. A leader even back then, she was a part of the frst co-educa- smooth fow of maritime trade could be dangerously imped- tional graduating class at Kings Point. Upon graduation, she sailed for ed.” Mr. Poulsson went on to state that we “need to understand fve years as a deck offcer on crude oil and product tankers with Gulf

Oil Corporation and Sun Company.

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