CHINA ECA

Why China Needs To Protect Its Coast With the IMO ECA Plans?

In a major development, China has been taking steps to curb the blight of ship emission related deaths, notably by expanding their domestic emission control areas (DECAs) to cover the country’s entire coastline, reports the Maritime Executive.

  • As many as 20,000 ship emission related Chinese deaths were reported by scientists in 2015.
  • While an important step, this new “national” DECA has room for improvement. The four emission control areas currently managed by the IMO offer good points of...

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China’s Scrubber Restriction Zone To Be Expanded

  • BEIJING to expand its ECA limit where the discharge of wash water from open-loop exhaust gas cleaning system are prohibited.
  • Expansion  will require vessels with open-loop scrubbers to switch to complaint fuels when entering the ECA, potentially reducing savings upon using cheaper HSFO.
  • IMO has stipulated that discharged wash water should not be greater than 50 micrograms per litre phenanthrene equivalence above the inlet water PAH.
  • Chinese seawater quality standards have a cap of 0.0025...

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