TO ALL MEMBERS OF CLASS 3 PROTECTION AND INDEMNITY TO ALL MEMBERS OF CLASS 6 FREIGHT, DEMURRAGE AND DEFENCE Dear Sirs Entry into force of the Bunkers Convention – State Certification Members are referred to the previous Club circulars that have been issued on the entry into force of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001 (the “Bunkers Convention”) and the State certification requirements contained therein. The most recent circular informed Members that the UK, Liberia and Cyprus, as States Parties to the Bunkers Convention, have agreed to issue State certificates to ships registered in States not party to the Convention irrespective of whether they are calling at a port in their territory or arriving at or leaving an offshore facility in their territorial waters after the entry into force date on 21 November 2008. Cyprus will not however issue certificates to ships flying the flag of a State that appears in the Black List of the Paris MOU according to the Annual Report of the Paris MOU for the year preceding the date of the request. A small number of other administrations have since agreed to issue certificates to ships registered in States not party to the Convention as well, namely the Cook Islands, Bahamas, Norway, Sierra Leone and the Isle of Man. The relevant contact details for Bunkers Convention State certificates in each of these administrations are as follows: The Cook Islands Maritime Cook Islands PO Box 882 Avarua, Rarotonga Cook Islands Phone: +682 23 848 Facsimile: +682 23 846 Skype: mcicooks2 Website: http://www.maritimecookislands.com/bunker-insurance.php Bahamas E-Mail: reg@bahamasmaritime.com Website: www.bahamasmaritime.com Norway Sjøfartsdirektoratet P.O Box 2222 N-5509 Haugesund Norway Tel: +52 74 50 00 Fax: +52 74 50 01 Email: postmottak@sjofartsdir.no Website: http://www.sjofartsdir.no/en Sierra Leone Mr. Woody Vaughn Sierra Leone International Ship Registry 1010 Common St. Suite 2533 New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 United States Tel: 1-504-636-1387 Fax: 1-504-636-1388 E-mail: technical@sierraleoneship.com Website: http://sierraleoneship.com Isle of Man Department of Trade and Industry Isle of Man Ship Registry Peregrine House Peel Road Douglas Isle of Man IM1 5EH Telephone: 01624 688500 Fax: 01624 688501 E-mail: registry.marine@gov.im The Bahamas Maritime Authority 120 Old Broad Street London EC2N 1AR United Kingdom The Bahamas Maritime Authority Bahamas House 231 East 46th Street New York New York 10017 United States of America The Bahamas Maritime Authority Manx Corporate Centre West Bay Street P.O. Box N-4679 Nassau, Bahamas Tel. +44 20 7562 1300 Fax. +44 20 7614 0650 Tel. +212 829 0221 Fax. +212 829 0356 Tel: +(1) 242 356 5772 Fax: +(1) 242 356 5889 A full list of the contact details for certificates in the UK, Liberia, Cyprus, Cook Islands, Bahamas, Sierra Leone and the Isle of Man is contained in the Annex to this circular. It should be noted that the UK has to date only extended UK ratification of the Bunkers Convention to the Isle of Man and not to any of the other UK Overseas Territories/Crown Dependencies. Ships registered in one of the Red Ensign Group of registries other than the Isle of Man can in the meantime obtain their certificates from the UK. The Cook Islands has also entered into an arrangement with the Panama Maritime Authority (PMA) to issue certificates for Panamanian registered ships pending Panama's ratification of the Bunker Convention. Members