Singapore MPA issued Shipping Circular No.16 of 2024 for mid-ocean Ship-to-ship (STS) operations for Singapore-registered ship. Please note the following points on Ship-to-ship (STS) Operations Plan for Singapore-registered ships.

1. If a Singapore-registered ship carry out mid-ocean STS operation, notification procedure to the Flag Administration is required to be included in STS Operations Plan of the ship. Herein, "mid-ocean" means sea area other than the territorial sea, or the exclusive economic zone where notification of STS operations to the Authority is required in Reg.42, Annex I of MARPOL.

2. Ship having approved STS Operations Plan and will carry out mid-ocean STS operation is required to insert pages for notification procedure to the Flag Administration, including information in Annex B of the attachment, into the on-board STS Operations Plan. Reapproval of the plan due to inserting of the pages is not required.

3. As well as the above 2, if a ship will carry out mid-ocean STS operation and will be newly provided with STS Operations Plan, notification procedure to the Flag Administration is required to be included into the plan.

4. Ships will not carry out mid-ocean STS operation is not required to include the notification procedure to the Flag Administration into STS Operations Plan.

For any questions about the above, please contact:

NIPPON KAIJI KYOKAI (ClassNK)
Hull Department, Administration Center Annex, Head Office
Address: 3-3 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan
Tel.: +81-3-5226-2017
Fax: +81-3-5226-2019
E-mail: hld@classnk.or.jp