From ShipInsight: Astudy carried out on washwater from scrubbers on cruise ships shows that it compares well with numerous water quality standards. The results of the study were revealed by the Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 to coincide with the IMO’s PPR 6 meeting taking place in London this week. The […]
Reposted from ShipInsight — By Paul Gunton. 25 February, 2019. Japan will not impose any restrictions on international ships discharging scrubber wash water in its ports, according to a senior representative of the country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Naohiro Saito, deputy director for international affairs in the ministry’s […]
Hellenic Shipping News Worldwide, in an article discussing IMO compliance, notes that scubber technology remains the most viable technology. Excerpts: “How does all this fit into the industries search for lowering harmful emissions? Well as there is yet to emerge a single fuel that is clean and has negligible harmful emissions, […]
By Lesley Bankes-Hughes— However, the transition to a 0.5% global sulphur cap ‘could take two to three years and will cost us all money,’ notes Robin Meech, MD of Marine & Energy Consulting. Addressing delegates on the opening day of the Middle East Bunkering Convention in Dubai, Meech gave a useful […]
Excerpt of a larger post published November 20 in Ship and Bunker. “When the ‘IMO 2020’ global 0.50% sulfur cap for marine fuel comes into force on January 1, 2020, vessel operators will need to install and use an exhaust gas cleaning system — more commonly known as a scrubber […]
Nick Confuorto, CR Ocean Engineering President and COO, will lead a seminar on Scrubber Technology. Organized by Lloyds’s Maritime Academy, the event will take place October 3-4, 2017, at the Hilton Olympia, in London. The seminar will explore compliance, cost analysis, and feasibility solutions. You will hear from regulatory […]
Reposted from Marine Propulsion. Speaking at last week’s European Marine Engineering Conference in Amsterdam, Iain White of ExxonMobil gave a presentation that put fuelling scenarios for 2020 into sharp focus. While he made it clear that there would be no ‘magic bullet’ that would guarantee compliance with the sulphur cap, […]
Published originally in The Economist: SHIPPING may seem like a clean form of transport. Carrying more than 90% of the world’s trade, ocean-going vessels produce just 3% of its greenhouse-gas emissions. But the industry is dirtier than that makes it sound. By burning heavy fuel oil, just 15 of the […]
Reprinted from BunkerWorld. High sulfur fuel oil has to be at least $200/mt cheaper than 0.5% low sulfur fuel oil or 0.1% marine gasoil to incentivize shipowners to install scrubbers, shipowners said Tuesday at the International Fujairah Bunkering & Fuel Oil Forum. “The bigger the spread between high sulfur fuel […]
Excerpts of a note published 3/16/2017 in Ship & Bunker. Jan De Nul Group (Jan De Nul) Wednesday suggested the use of HFO in combination with exhaust gas scrubbers could have fewer environmental and operational downsides than the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as marine fuel. “LNG is being […]
We cross post an important analysis from Reuters, which discussesthe effects on the shipping industry of the 2020 switch to cleaner fuels. By Libby George | LONDON — A switch to cleaner fuels in the world’s ships in 2020 could double the profits of the world’s most advanced oil refineries – but […]
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 […]
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 […]
