Greg Trauthwein, reporter for Maritime Reporter TV interviewed CR Ocean Engineering’s President and COO Nick Confuorto. Mr. Confuorto, after providing some background on CR Ocean Engineering’s years of experience building exhaust gas scrubbers, dispels the mistaken idea that scrubbing technology is a complicated, labor-intensive endeavor. “If a scrubber is designed […]
By Ines Nastali — IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) has agreed on a 2020 implementation date for the 0.5% sulphur cap. From this year on, sulphur emissions from marine fuels will be restricted under MARPO Annex VI. The decision has been awaited by the industry as it needs to […]
A major International Maritime Organization upcoming decision to curb ship emissions could bring momentous changes, such as steep fuel price hikes, to the shipping industry, according to the following report by Costas Paris and Nicholle Friedman published in the October 21 Wall Street Journal. Excerpts: “The world’s leading maritime nations […]
Scrubbers could see a tenfold demand surge and be installed on as many as 3,000 to 5,000 ships annually should the 0.5% global sulfur cap mandate come into force in 2020, according to Don Gregory, director of the Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association (EGCSA). Gregory’s comments come ahead of a […]
In the White Paper CO2 and Sulphur Emissions, Gustav Krantz, from Transoleum, presents a case for the use of marine exhaust gas scrubbers as a means to reducing CO2 indirect emissions which, contrary to claims, have been on the rise in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the English […]
Excerpts from a Reuters article on the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee upcoming meeting to discuss a global cap on SOx emissions. As the article notes, a reduction of emissions to the suggested 0.5 percent would mean substantial increases in fuel costs. As the stringent, new regulations come […]
From Ship Insight Newsletter. Posted 22 September 2016 by Malcolm Latarche, under Environmental Technology In a press conference held on 8 September 2016 at the SMM trade fair in Hamburg, Germany, the Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association (EGCSA) presented its case in support of the implementation of the 2020 global […]
