The UAE authorities have tightened their rules around HSFO supply to ships in their waters.
Ships taking on HSFO in the UAE will from now on be required to submit a copy of the International Air Pollution Prevention (IAPP) certificate for their scrubber, the country's Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure said in a circular published on Friday.
The certificate demonstrates that the ship actually has a working scrubber, and the new requirement to provide the document may reflect a concern that some ships currently bunkering HSFO in the UAE do not have the emissions-cleaning systems installed.
Under the previous system suppliers were only required to take the word of the receiving vessel that the HSFO was to be used in a MARPOL-compliant way, a local source told Ship & Bunker.
HSFO took up 21.6% of total bunker sales at the UAE hub of Fujairah last month, up from 17.4% a year earlier.
