Circular Ref No.
: PNI1816
Date: 13 December 2018
Dear Sir/Madam，
Subject: Chinese Ministry of Transport (MOT) Issued New
Requirement Regarding Emission Control Areas in Chinese
Territorial Waters to be Effective from 01.01.2019
Chinese Ministry of Transport issued a new regulation regarding
requirements of emission control areas in Chinese territorial waters which
will become effective from 01.01.2019. This new regulation introduces
some substantial changes to the existing ECA scheme previously
announced by Chinese authorities. To help ship owners and operators
understand and comply with the new regulation, we have prepared this
circular to introduce the main contents of the updated requirements.
Applicable objects
This regulation applies to all the vessels which are sailing, anchoring or
working in emission control areas.
The emission control areas
Emission control areas under this regulation include coastal emission
control area and inner river emission control area.
Coastal emission control area (hereinafter referred to as coastal ECA)
refers to sea areas within sea boundary line connected by 60 points as
illustrated in Table 1. Hainan costal ECA refers to sea areas within sea
boundary line connected by 20 points shown in Table 2.
Inland River emission control area (hereinafter referred to as Inland Water
ECA) includes navigable inland waters administered by Yangtze River
main line (from Shuifu County of Yunnan province to Liuyang estuary of
Jiangsu province) and Xijiang River main line (from Nanning of Guangxi
province to Zhaoqing of Guangdong province), whose starting and ending
coordinates are showed in Table 3.
Table 1 Coordinates of control points of sea boundary line in coastal ECA
Table 2 Coordinates of control points of sea boundary line in Hainan coastal ECA
Table 3 Coordinates of starting and ending points in Inland Water ECA
Inner River
Boundar Point
Control Detail of Point No. Longitude Latitude
y Name
Areas
。 。
104 24'30. 28 38'22.
B1
Starting Shuifu, 60" 38"
Xiangjiaba Bridge 。 。
Point Yunnan 104 24'35. 28 38'27.
B2
Yangtzi 94" 84"
River main Line from Liuheiwu located
。
121 18'54.
。
31 30'52.
B3
line in downsteam of Liuhekou to 00" 00"
Ending Liuhekou,
Shixingan located in 。 。
Point Jiangsu 121 22'30. 31 37'34.
downstream of Shiqiao River at B4
00" 00"
Chongming Island
。 。
108 18'19. 22 48'48.
B5
Starting Nanning, 77" 60"
Minsheng Terminal in Nanning 。 。
Point Guangxi 108 18'26. 22 48'39.
Xijiang B6
72" 76"
River main 。 。
Connection line between 112 48'30. 23 08'45.
line Zhaoqing, B7
Ending Jinlixia tiexian corner in 00" 00"
Guangdon 。 。
Point Xijiang river and top of 112 47'19. 23 08'01.
g B8
Wudinggang Chung Hau 00" 00"
Emission Control Requirements
(1) Oxysulfide and PM emission control requirements
1. From 01.01.2019, ocean-going vessels are required to use fuel with low
sulphur content not exceeding 0.5%m/m when entering into emission
control areas. Large inland vessels and river-coastal vessels shall use fuel
oil that meets newly revised GB standard. Other inland vessels are required
to use diesel oil that meets relevant standard. From 01.01.2020, ocean-
going vessels are required to use low sulphur content fuel not exceeding
0.1%m/m when entering Inland Water ECA.
2. From 01.03.2020, vessels without taking alternative measures, such as
installing PM and oxysulfide control device are only permitted to carry and
use fuel oil specified in this regulation when entering into emission control
areas.
3. From 01.01.2022, ocean-going vessel are required to use low sulphur
content fuel not exceeding 0.1%m/m when entering Hainan costal ECA.
4. Chinese authority will evaluate the feasibility of using low sulphur
content fuel no more than 0.1%m/m at an appropriate time and decide
whether or not to require ocean-going vessel to use fuel with sulphur
content not exceeding 0.1%m/m when entering coastal ECA from
01.01.2025.
(2) Oxynitride emission control requirements
5. For international navigating vessels built on/after 01.01.2000 (subject to
the date of laying keel, hereinafter the same) or undergone major
modification of a marine diesel engine, if the output power of a single
marine diesel engine exceeds 130 kW, the vessel shall meet the Tier I
oxynitride emission limits stipulated by MARPOL.
6. For international navigating vessels built on/after 01.01.2011 or
undergone major modification of a marine diesel engine, if the output
power of a single marine diesel engine exceeds 130 kW, the vessel shall
meet the Tier II oxynitride emission limits stipulated by MARPOL.
7. For Chinese domestic navigating vessels built on/after 01.01.2015 or
undergone major modification of a marine diesel engine, if the output
power of a single marine diesel engine exceeds 130 kW, the vessel shall
meet the Tier II oxynitride emission limits stipulated by MARPOL.
8. For Chinese domestic navigating vessels built on/after 01.01.2015 or
undergone major modification of a marine diesel engine, who sailed into
the Hainan coastal ECA and Inland Water ECA, the vessel’s marine diesel
engine with single cylinder displacement no less than 30 liters shall meet
the Tier III oxynitride emission limits stipulated by MARPOL.
9. Chinese authority will evaluate the feasibility of implementing Tier III
oxynitride emission limits stipulated by MARPOL, in order to decide
whether the marine diesel engine with single cylinder displacement no less
than 30 liters, which equipped on Chinese domestic navigated vessels built
on/after 01.01.2015 or undergone major modification of a marine diesel
engine, shall meet the Tier III oxynitride emission limits stipulated by
MARPOL.
(3) Requirements of using shore power by vessel in port
10. The Chinese public service vessels, inland river vessels (with exception
of liquid cargo vessel) and river-coastal vessels build on/after 01.01.2019
shall be equipped with ship shore power system ship-borne device. The
Chinese domestic coastal container ships, cruises, ro-ro passenger ships,
passenger ships with a gross tonnage at least 3,000 tons and dry bulk cargo
ships with a gross tonnage at least 50,000 tons build on/after 01.01.2020
shall be equipped with ship shore power system ship-borne device.
11. From 01.07.2019, shore power shall be used if vessels equipped with
shore power system ship-borne device (with the exception of liquid cargo
vessel) at berth with onshore power supply capacity for more than 3 hours
in the Coastal ECA, or get alongside berth with onshore power supply
capacity in the Inland Water ECA for more than 2 hours and without using
other equivalent alternative measures (including the use of clean energy,
new energy, ship-borne electrical storage device or closing the auxiliary
engine, etc., hereinafter the same). From 01.01.2021, shore power shall be
used if a cruise gets alongside berth with onshore power supply capacity
for more than 3 hours and without using other equivalent alternative
measures in the ECAs.
12. From 01.01.2022, Chinese public service vessels, inland river vessels
(with the exception of liquid cargo vessel) using single marine diesel
engine power output of more than 130 KW but do not meet the Tier II
oxynitride emission limits stipulated by MARPOL, and the Chinese
domestic coastal container ships, ro-ro passenger ships, passenger ships
with a gross tonnage of at least 3,000 tons and dry bulk cargo ships with
gross tonnage of at least 50,000 tons are required to install shore power
system ship-borne device. Shore power shall be used if vessels get
alongside berth with onshore power supply capacity for more than 3 hours
in the Coastal ECA, or berthing at port with onshore power supply capacity
for more than 2 hours in the Inland Water ECA, without using other
equivalent alternative measures.
13. Chinese shipping enterprises and operators are encouraged to install
shore power system ship-borne device on vessels other than those specified
in article 12, and to use shore power when getting alongside berth with
onshore power supply capacity in the emission control area.
(4) Others
14. Vessels may take alternative measures, such as using clean energy/new
energy, equipping with power storage device, exhaust gas cleaning system
etc. to satisfy the emission control requirements. If the vessel using exhaust
gas after-treatment method, the emission-monitoring device shall be
installed, and the generated wastewater waste liquid shall be disposed
according to relevant regulations.
15. The local governments of other inland water area are encouraged to
adopt the requirement of the Inland Water ECA and lodge request to ocean-
going vessels to use low sulphur content fuel when entering into local
waters.
16. Domestic oil tankers with no less than 150 tons and build on/after
01.01.2020 are required to have oil and gas recovery condition when
entering into ECAs and encouraged to conduct oil and gas recovery if
safety requirement can be satisfied. Foreign-going vessels shall comply
with the emission control requirements for volatile organic stipulated by
MARPOL.
17. Vessels should strictly implement other existing international
conventions, domestic laws and regulations on emission control
requirements for atmospheric pollutants.
Given the above, owners are reminded to ensure satisfaction of relevant
requirements mentioned in the regulation above when your good vessels
enter into Chinese territorial waters as from 01.01.2019 to avoid any
penalty or problems.
We hope the above is of assistance. Any query, please feel free to contact
us.
Best regards,
Yu Limin
President
