Tag: 2020 sulphur cap

How shipping industry can address sulphur and CO2 emissions: to tackle sulphur regulation and climate change simultaneously

Port Documentation and Sulphur Checks

Increased costs imposed by ECAs in Alaska

EPA, USCG reach pollution control agreement with Carnival

Carnival invests $180 million on exhaust scrubbers to reduce cruise ship fuel exhaust

Setting Targets for 2030

New blending system aims to reduce ECA costs

Vice President Siim Kallas speech on alternative energy in transportation Vice-President of the European Commission, Siim Kallas, recenltly gave a speech on making the most alternative energy to drive transport forward . Transport accounts for nearly a third of the final energy consumption. There is a need to reduce the consumption of oil-based fuels - and in transport generally. For that, he said, there has to be enough infrastructure to allow access to cleaner fuels. Redarding LNG in the shipping industry he said :''Natural gas is probably the only globally available fuel that reasonably allows ships and waterborne transport to meet their emissions targets - and the EU's new requirements for maximumsulphur content in marine fuels. These are 0.1% in Sulphur Emission Control Areas by 2015 and 0.5% in all EU waters by 2020. Ships face a real challenge to get access to this fuel. The first large LNG ferry has been sailing between Turku and Stockholm since early this year. It has to be fuelled by a custom-made bunker barge in Stockholm, the first in EU shipping.I use this example to illustrate that wedohave this technology; we are already a world leader in this area. But it also illustrateshow ...

Reduction of Sulphur Emissions from Ships: The CPMR Regions Response

UK Shipping Needs Time to Prepare for 2015 Emission Limits