Fritz Fredriksen News

Ian Adams has been appointed the first ever Chief Executive of the International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) following the decision to change from a 25-member Council of Management to an executive structure headed by a Board of Directors. Adams was formerly Secretary-General of IBIA which, since its formation in 1993, has been governed by a Council of Management. The decision to restructure was unanimously agreed by members at the IBIA convention in Cape Town in November last year.

International Bunker Industry Association (IBIA) has made a submission to IMO urging the early adoption of a sensible and practical system covering the provision of Material Data Safety Certificates (MSDSs), and a revision of MSC 150 (77), the IMO resolution incorporating MSDS recommendations. IBIA made its intervention at the eleventh meeting of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee’s (MSC) Bulk Liquids & Gases (BLG 11) subcommittee in London on April 19. In doing so, it was following up its comments at the MSC82 meeting in Istanbul in December last year that current proposals relating to the mandatory supply and carriage of MSDSs in connection with MAPROL Annex 1 cargoes and marine fuel oils were “severely flawed and unworkable”.