Since December 2016, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has conducted 113 compliance checks on 53 cruise ships, noting 100% compliance.
These compliance checks indicate that less than 10% of cruise ships are utilizing the option of fitting scrubbers with the majority using low sulphur fuel.
This comes as latest figures from consultancy CRU show that 3,756 vessels have scrubbers either installed or on order.
Namely, by the end of 2020, up to 15% of ocean-going freight capacity will be using scrubbers, with the number now expected to grow to 20% by 2025.
Scrubbers have been an attractive solution for compliance with IMO 2020 sulphur cap, equivalent to that of low-sulphur fuels, despite a recent surge in bans of the open loop scrubbers at ports globally.
