Japan Supports Use of Open-loop Scrubbers

Japan concludes no scientific justification to ban open-loop scrubbers.
California and Connecticut in the US, Fujairah, Singapore, China have introduced regulations and jurisdictions to prevent discharge from open-loop scrubbers.
The issue raised is that open-loop scrubbers do not address environmental issues as they simply take sulfur out of the air and put it into the ocean.
Japan concluded that the discharge water with chemical substances such as SOx, PAHs and heavy metals cannot cause...