Tag: 2020 sulphur cap

SAFETY4SEA Team met with Mr. Suresh Sinha, Managing Director, and Mr. S. Patil, Business Development, of the Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) to discuss about industry’s key challenges and their expansion plans in the Greek market. Since opening its Greek office in 2010, based in Piraeus, IRClass has been actively engaged with Greek shipyards and owners to offer its full range of classification services.

IBIA announced that it will be present at the 6th session of the IMO’s Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 6), which will endeavour to complete work on remaining issues relating to consistent implementation of the 0.50% sulphur limit set to take effect from 1 January 2020.

In 2018, the sale of bunker oil in the Rotterdam bunker port fell from 9.9 million m3 to 9.5 million m3. This reduction can be explained by the decline in sales of heavy fuel oil from 8.3 million m3 to 7.9 million m3. On the other hand, the throughput of LNG as bunker fuel increased considerably from 1,500 to 9,500 tonnes. What is more, the introduction of the 'Timetobunker App' was successful.

The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 held its first technical conference and presented a detailed study of the composition and quality of scrubber washwater. The Carnival-led study, which lasted three years, gathered 281 wash water samples from 53 ships with scrubbers. This data was then assessed against 54 different test parameters by ISO accredited independent laboratories.

Hadi Haghshenas, deputy director of maritime affairs in Iran, supported, during the closing ceremony of the 26th conference on coordination of marine organizations in Tehran, that they expect the government's support in favour of using low-sulfur fuel in the country's fleet over the next ten months.

In line with CMA CGM's earlier announcement that it would opt for both LNG and scrubbers to achieve compliance with 2020 sulphur cap, the French shipping company has now set its newbuilding orders, split between the two options. 

Dutch maritime companies collaborate on the Green Methanol Project, in support of Maritime Knowledge Centre, to investigate the use of methanol as a sustainable alternative transport fuel in the maritime sector. Dutch shipowners, shipyards, manufacturers and ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam have joined forces ahead of the IMO’s 2020 sulphur cap.

Euroseas Ltd, a Greek containership owner, is planning to use low sulphur fuels to be compliant with the IMO's 2020 sulphur cap regulations. In its full year results call Euroseas said it was eschewing fitting scrubbers to meet the demands of the sulphur cap and will use compliant low sulphur fuels.

The 2019 SAFETY4SEA Conference in Cyprus successfully concluded on Wednesday 20th of February, at the Columbia Plaza in Limassol, attracting 250 delegates from a total of 130 organizations. Experts shared their views on industry’s critical issues such as the upcoming 2020 global sulphur cap, IMO’s ambitious emission reduction targets and loss prevention challenges.

The European Commission issued a proposal that urges IMO to change its scrubber guidelines. Yet, CSA 2020 (Clean Shipping Alliance 2020) expressed its second thoughts on the matter.