Tag: 2020 sulphur cap

Wilhelmsen Ships Service has moved to an agreement with Hitachi High-Tech, to offer the company's handheld XRF sulphur content analysers to the maritime market. This technology helps vessel crews test the sulphur content in their fuel in detail. Hitachi High-Tech’s XRF spectrometers offer upstream and downstream quality control, requiring little sample prep, minimal training and providing almost instantaneous, verifiable results.

At some point, dumping toxic waste water from open loop scrubbers into the oceans 'will come back to haunt us', with such ships being banned from pumping their toxic waste water into oceans. This was the key message of the Managing Director and the Director of Precious Shipping, at the company's annual review. 

As the 2020 deadline for the sulphur cap gets nearer, ICS reviewed progress in persuading the IMO to take measures to address expected implementation problems. This includes safety and fuel compatibility issues regarding the use of new 0.5% sulphur blends and continuing uncertainty over the availability of compliant fuels in every port globally.  

To mitigate the risks of an increasingly complex bunkering marketplace, VeriFuel, part of Bureau Veritas, urged the marine bunker sector, upstream supply chain, and fuel testing organisations, to work together more effectively to find solutions that support the smooth transition to new fuels for 2020.

Energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie provided a recap of predictions in view of the upcoming stringent environmental regulations and specifically the IMO's sulphur cap, effective from 1st January 2020. Woodmac sees, among others, a rise in the use of scrubbers, before the IMO imposes its sulphur limit. 

IUMI, the International Union of Marine Insurance, forces refineries to test on low sulphur fuels ahead of the introduction of the global sulphur cap on 2020. IUMI stated that fuel testing is undertaken by the end-user but this has to change. IUMI is calling for regulation that obliges refineries to guarantee the quality of their fuel and for vessel operators to improve their systems, processes and training to protect their vessels against the potential impact of using low sulphur bunkers.

E4tech in its 'The Fuel Cell Industry Review 2018' report focuses on the developments that are occurring in the time being, supporting that they could benefit the market for fuel cells, but not yet. The report looked at developments and ‘proving efforts’ currently happening in Germany, Norway, Greece, the US and Belgium.

Dorian LPG announced that it entered into a contract for three additional scrubbers, increasing its total scrubbers under contract to ten, all of which will use hybrid technology. Now, twenty-two ships will have exhaust gas cleaning systems. This will enhance the company's competitive advantage, John C. Hadjipateras, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated.

EIA published that the implementation of new regulations on marine fuel will affect crude oil and petroleum product markets the following decade. The Administration focuses mainly on the long-term implications of the market changes that will involve changes to ships, marine fuels, refining, and some infrastructure in the next six to eight years.

Mr. Ian Adams has been recently appointed as the Executive Director of the Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 which aims to clarify issues concerning the Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems and assist in the effective enforcement of the upcoming sulphur cap. Mr. Adams anticipates an increase in global shipping costs overnight from 1 January 2020, highlighting that a postponement of the amendments to MARPOL Annex VI is off the table; therefore, the industry needs to get fully prepared for compliance by the end of 2019.