The Scrubber Debate Ahead of IMO 2020

Capt. John
  • To comply with the Sulphur regulation, scrubbers are turning out to be a favourite for the ship-owners due to cost and convenience.
  • More than 10 countries, including major ones like China, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, California, Germany and more, banning the open-loop scrubbers.
  • The benefit of using the scrubbers is that ships with scrubbers can continue to run on the cheaper bunker fuel.
  • A whole new fuel-system has to be installed and replacing to compliant fuel is an expensive process.
  • Scrubber is...

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