China’s maritime authority has issued a draft plan extending a ban on wash water discharge from open-loop scrubbers to more coastal regions from 2020. The ban follows an earlier restriction imposed in January 2019 on discharges from open-loop scrubbers in key emission control regions.
Following a months-long debate, China eventually implemented the ban within key emission control areas (ECAs), including the main channel of the Yangtze River, the Xijiang River, the Bohai sea region and ports...
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