With the benefit of hindsight, ocean carriers would not have been anywhere near as bullish with their scrubber strategies, it was claimed this week.
Japanese ocean carrier ONE has just 5% of its fleet fitted with the exhaust gas cleaning systems, compared with HMM’s 80%, Evergreen’s 57% and MSC’s 43%.
Alphaliner said the top ten carriers “continue to have different views on scrubbers”, with MSC the biggest advocate, with 170 scrubber-fitted vessels …