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Blending or Commingling?

The terms ‘blending’ and ‘commingling’ are often used interchangeably in the shipping industry when two or more different parcels of liquid bulk cargo are loaded into the same cargo tank.

According to SOLAS Chapter VI, Regulation VI/5-2, physical blending is defined as ‘the process whereby the ship’s cargo pumps and pipelines are used to internally circulate two or more different cargoes with the intent to achieve a cargo with a new product designation’. Blending may also involve loading different products into the same cargo tank to achieve a new product with a new specification (a blend mixture), without the need for internal circulation using pumps or pipelines.

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