International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships

Edited by Henrik Ringbom, Professor of Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea, Law School and Faculty of Social Sciences, Economics and Law, Åbo Akademi University, Finland; Professor II Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway and Aldo Chircop, Professor of Law, Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, Canada

• Contents1 Introduction to MARPOL 1Henrik Ringbom and Aldo ChircopPART I CONTEXT2 MARPOL: History and Context 15Agustín Blanco-Bazán3 MARPOL: An Introduction 38Rosalie Balkin, AO4 International Law Context and Interface of MARPOL with Other Regimes 67J Ashley Roach5 IMO Context and the Regulatory Strategy of MARPOL 82Michael (Mikis) TsimplisPART II THE MARPOL CONVENTION6 MARPOL as a Treaty 110Dorota Lost-Sieminska7 MARPOL Documentation, Record-keeping and Reporting Requirements 138Aref Fakhry and Maximo Q Mejia Jr8 The MARPOL Port State Jurisdiction Regime 175Arron N Honniball and Nelson F Coelho9 MARPOL and Contracts of Carriage: An Evaluation of the Duties of Carrier and Cargo Interest in VoyageCharterparties 215Jason Chuah FRSAPART III THE ANNEXES10 Annex I: Construction and Equipment Requirements 232Frank Maes11 Annex I: Operational Standards and Discharge Limits 251Renping Zhang12 Annex II: The Carriage of Noxious Liquid Substances in Bulk 275Moira L McConnell13 Annex III: Harmful Substances in Packaged Form 297Marel Katsivel14 Annex IV: Regulation for the Prevention of Pollution by Sewage from Ships 316Alexander Proelss15 Annex V: Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships 343Youna LBL Lyons and Yulu Liu16 Annex VI: Regulation 14: Sulphur Emissions 374Jesper Fanø17 Annex VI: Air Pollution Substances 401Jorma Kämäräinen18 Annex VI: Greenhouse Gas Regulation 425Yubing Shi19 Annex VI: Heavy Fuel Oil and Black Carbon in Polar Waters 450Aldo ChircopPART IV CROSS-CUTTING THEMES20 Implementation, Compliance and Enforcement 479Proshanto K Mukherjee21 Enforcing MARPOL 503Mark Covan22 MARPOL Area-based Pollution Prevention Measures 534Iva Parlov23 MARPOL and Port Waste Reception Facilities 559Henning Jessen24 The Polar Code 581Sian Prior and Ambre Dominici25 Technical Cooperation 610Stefan Micallef and Jonathan Pace26 Regional Issues and Challenges Linked to MARPOL 635Henrik Ringbom

‘Ringbom and Chircop succeed in getting no less than 30 experts to give their take on MARPOL 50 years on, via 26 chapters dedicated to context and the convention itself and its annexes – a hugely interesting and useful tool to all academics and practitioners alike functioning in the maritime space.’