Ships are now required to report their energy consumption data of their last voyage when entering and leaving Chinese ports.
The ‘Regulation on Data Collection for Energy Consumption of Ships’ (RDCECS) has been enforced since 1 January and applies to all ships of and above 400 gross tonnages or powered by main propulsion machinery of 750 kW propulsion power when they enter and leave Chinese ports, regardless of their nationality.
Ships have to report their energy consumption data of their last voyage to the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) when applying for a port departure report or port clearing formality, confirmed the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO).
The NGO noted that chapter three of the regulation is dedicated to all Chinese flagged ships of and above 5,000 gross tonnages that navigate internationally, thus not applicable to foreign flagged ships.
Ships need to report the required data (per voyage, per month and per year) via the maritime information platform maintained by China MSA.
BIMCO previously announced that Chinese regulators have updated part of its domestic emission control area (DECA) regulations with effect from 1 January 2019 but has not yet placed a full ban on open-loop scrubbers. The banned areas for discharging wastewater from scrubbers remain within inland ECAs, port waters under coastal DECA and the Bohai Bay waters.
