Loss Prevention 18 Jan, 2022

MARPOL - Amendments to Annex VI on Fuel

Sampling and Testing
Dmitry Kisil
Senior Loss Prevention Officer

The IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC)

held its 75th Session remotely in November 2020. Amendments
to MARPOL Annex VI to boost the Energy Efficiency Design
Index (EEDI) "phase 3" requirements were adopted, including
fuel sampling and testing. The revisions agreed are expected
to apply from 1 April 2022.

The amendments to the fuel sampling regulations will

require all-new ships with their keels laid on or after 1 April
Lloyd’s Register Class news article
2022 to be fully compliant with their delivery. Additionally,
ships constructed before 1 April 2022 will need to fulfil
02/2022
these regulations by the ship's first International Air
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Pollution Prevention (IAPP) renewal survey on or after 1
April 2023.

For detailed information on this subject, Members can

refer to Lloyd’s Register Class news article 02/2022,
published on 11 January 2022.

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