Scrubber Orders Swell Yet Alternative Fuels Seems Preferred

Scrubber orders till date this year have dwarfed all previous years combined, according to data on DNV GL’s online Alternative Fuels Insight (AFI) database, writes Paul Gunton for an article in ShipInsight.

Scrubber installations

With the information provided by scrubber manufacturers, at the time of writing AFI reports a total of 3,023 ships in operation or on order for delivery this year have, or will have, exhaust scrubbers. 

The corresponding figure at the end of 2018 was just 767.

Though the...

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