
Steamship Mutual
Published: October 15, 2024
With thanks to local correspondents, Pandi Liquidadores SRL Buenos Aires, this Information Note brings to the attention of Members their Circular 051/2024 regarding the newly enacted Disposition 23/2024 (DI-2024-23-APN-SSPYVN#MEC) which will enter into force on the 9 November 2024.
The Disposition is applicable to: “ALL VESSELS AND/OR CONVOY OF BARGES, OF ANY TYPE, CARRYING ANY TYPE OF CARGO, sailing through the Argentinean main waterway of the Hidrovia Parana-Paraguay (covering River Plate Basin, Parana River and its branches), whereby the vessels are required to compulsorily obtain an OSRO (Oil Spill Response Organization) certificate issued by a local company approved by Coast Guards under the category A1”.

In case of breach, the Owners and the agents will be held jointly and severally liable before the Administración General de Puertos SE (AGP – Port Administration), who will be entitled to appoint an OSRO on behalf of the Owners and charge, in that case, up to x3 times its value.
AGP is required to issue the relevant regulations to put into practice above disposition.
Pandi Liquidadores S.R.L advise that this Disposition has caught the concern of different sectors. “It has been said that the Disposition would not have consensus in the Administration, and, that, the Ministry of Deregulation and Transformation of the Argentine State – appointed by the current President Mieli – would be seeking to repeal this new disposition.”
Attached is the full PANDI Circular 51/2024 and original Disposition 23/2024 as issued by Undersecretariat of Ports and Waterways published in Argentine Official Gazette (Boletín Oficial) on 9th October 2024 and will enter in force 30 (thirty) days after its publication (9th November 2024).
A free translation of the Disposition, as made by the Chamber of Ship Agents (Centro Nevagción), is attached.
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