China – Establishment of Emission Control Areas (ECA) (No.9) M embers are kindly requested to refer to the previous Japan P&I News No.858 dated 2 December 2016 and No.881 dated 3 April 2017.   Implementation of the low sulphur fuel requirement was started on 1 September 2017 at all ports in the Zhejiang ECA which is a part of the Yangtze River ECA (Zhejiang ECA includes Ningbo, Zhoushan, Jiaxing, Taizhou etc.).  This means that such low sulphur fuel requirement has now been implemented at all ports in the Yangtze River ECA. The map of the Yangtze River ECA is shown as follows:- Members are therefore kindly requested that they make sure to comply with the low sulphur fuel requirement, using fuel with sulphur contents not exceeding 0.5%m/m, during their vessels’ calls at any of the ports in the Yangtze River ECA.