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PANAMA CANAL NEWS
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COMPLIANCE WITH PANAMA CANAL SHIPBOARD OIL POLLUTION
EMERGENCY PLAN (PCSOPEP) GUARANTEE
REQUIREMENTS |
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PANAMA CANAL TRANSIT
RESERVATION (BOOKING) SYSTEM |
COMPLIANCE WITH PANAMA
CANAL SHIPBOARD OIL POLLUTION EMERGENCY PLAN (PCSOPEP)
GUARANTEE REQUIREMENTS
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) issued Advisory to
Shipping N-19-2007 dated August 10, 2007, regarding the compliance with the
Panama Canal Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (PCSOPEP).
Based on the need to have an expedient process to handle
PCSOPEP non compliance cases, the ACP has determined that the only acceptable
guarantees will be those provided by the shipping agency representing the
vessel before the Panama Canal.
This advisory does not cancel the remaining content of the
Advisory to Shipping N-19-2007.
Ship owners, operators, and masters are encouraged to
ensure that their vessels comply with the PCSOPEP requirements and other Panama
Canal regulations. For further information, please direct your inquiries to
pcsopep@pancanal.com or by telephone to (507) 272-4635.
In response to concerns expressed by our customers
regarding the procedure published in Advisory to Shipping A-24-2007 for the
allocation of booking slots that become available due to cancellations,
effective December 4, the procedure is hereby modified, as follows:
Booking slots that become available during the 1st or 2nd
period due to cancellations or changes in booking dates will be offered first
to vessels that failed to secure a slot during the tie-breaker competition for
that period, followed by any subsequent rejections, in order of rejection, as
long as the rejection takes place prior to the booking slot becoming available.
If there were no rejections or if none of the rejected
vessels are interested, the available slot(s) will then be allocated through a
“special competition,” in the following manner:
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The ACP will publish daily, by no later than 1530 hours, any slot that becomes
available due to a cancellation or a change in transit date. This information
will be available at:
https://sites.extranet.pancanal.com/sites/tb/default.aspx.
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This information will be also available at our Slot Availability Notifications
website at:
http://www.pancanal.com/eng/maritime/booking/index.html.
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Steamship agents interested in having access to this information may send their
request to edcs_registration@pancanal.com and a password will be issued.
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Requests to participate in the “special competition” will be received from 0900
to 0930 hours of the day following the date of publication; however, processing
will not begin earlier than 0930 hours.
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The procedure utilized during the “special competition” for the allocation of
the available slots will be the same as the procedure utilized to allocate
slots during the regular tie-breaker competition.
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Any booking request received after the cancellation or the change in transit
date takes place, but before the opening of the “special competition,” will not
be accepted. In order for these requests to be considered, they must be
re-submitted during the “special competition” period.
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The competition list that is derived from this “special competition” will be
used to allocate slots that become available in the future for that same date.
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there are no vessels interested in the “special competition,” the slot will
then become available on a first come-first served basis for the remainder of
the period.
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cancellations or changes in transit dates take place on the last day of a
period, the slots that become available will be carried over to the following
period without a “special competition.”
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All times referenced to are local times.