When demand for container shipping renews, vessels returning to China to load exports could find themselves on wrong side of a new emissions law.
At the weekend, the country banned the use of open-loop scrubbers with the ministry of transportation’s 2020 Global Fuel Oil Sulphur Limitation Order Implementation Plan (2020 plan).
It prohibits the use of fuel oil with a sulphur content exceeding 0.5% within 12 miles of China, vessels entering its …
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