In a major development, Malaysia has announced that they are prohibiting the use of open-loop scrubbers for ships plying in Malaysian waters, as Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy joins the growing number of nations adopting new industry guidelines on reducing sea pollution, reports Reuters.
New regulations from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) will require shippers to adopt more environmentally-friendly measures to manage their fleets, including reducing the sulphur content in...
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Langh Ship has announced that two of its vessels, LINDA and AILA, will use the closed-loop scrubber during all piloted sailings, even in open-loop system permitted areas, reports World Cargo News.
Langh companies and environmentalThe Langh companies take environmental matters into account in their day-to-day operations.
It takes efforts to improve the state of the world’s seas are important to all of them, says a company statement.
“The environmental perspective has been at the core of the...
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The IMO 2020 sulphur regulation is less than 6 months away and the world is still pondering about the utility of scrubbers. While various studies and analysis have almost sealed the deal in favour of closed loop scrubbers yet most of us are unaware of how we can do this in a cost-effective way as a long term solution. To counter this, the Alfa Laval has launched a Pure SOx cleaning system that provides future proof cost-saving flexibility to scrubbers.
Here’s an insight on that as published in a...
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