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Nautical Institute on MARPOL Prevention

Started by gcaptain · 11 months ago

We rarely reproduce press releases… but it’s Sunday and not your usual release. Seaways, the Nautical Institute’s monthly magazine, has a story this month on ideas to prevent oil discharges aboard ships. They point some fingers and expose some truths while% ... Continue reading »

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watermon
1 year ago

Interesting article. I concur that in many instances there appears the problems of falsified records. The problem is not solely at the seafarer level but also at the marine terminal where the transfer of petroleum products originates or terminates in conjunction with the vessel and dock interface.

For example in the USA, ,there are specific tenets in the required Declaration of Inspection (DOI) that fulfills the regulatory requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations and Clean Water Act. Many times this important document is pencil whipped to move the juice expediently.

As this trend continues, all marine transfer operators are on borrowed time for the next environmental release.

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seatime32
1 year ago

Pencil Whipped...what's that? Kinda like the STCW "12-hour" log??

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