A captain's job is getting harder

[John Arton]

Before enforced retirement in 08, the new low sulphur regs had come in and my Chief Engineers were always telling me that as fuel ordering and it's quality were their remit, it would be them who suffered any and all penalties if they were found to be using the wrong sulphur content fuel in the special areas as after all it was their duty to correctly maintain the engine room oil record book with the master just signing it on every page to basically confirm that he had sighted it and that the engineers were filling it in correctly. Now it seems that they were wrong and it should have been me signing and checking bunker delivery notes, going down below to set up the fuel lines to ensure that day use fuel was been drawn from the low sulphur fuel bunker tanks 24 hours before we entered a special area!
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/20...ing-dirty-fuel
Rgds
J.A.

[happy daze john in oz]

John, not sure about other countries but here in Oz all Diesel fuel of any sort must be Sulphur free.
Rules changed about 8 years ago.

[robpage]

the Greens like socially responsible organisations who apply the rules , want to make a difference , stop coal burning power stations in the USA and China , maybe that is too big a task