Tag: HFO

Pacific Environment is calling on the International Maritime Organization to prohibit the use of heavy fuel oil in Arctic waters at its MEPC meeting which takes place this week.The Environmental Group highlights that prohibiting the use of heavy fuel oil by shipping in the Arctic will produce a number of significant environmental and social benefits.

The use of heavy fuel oil by shipping in the Arctic could have disastrous consequences. Banning this fuel would protect the region’s rich wildlife, improve human health and benefit the climate, writes Sue Libenson

A group of fifteen environment groups delivered a letter to the Arctic Council renewing a call on the involved nations to ban the use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.The use of heavy fuel oil by shipping in the Arctic could have disastrous consequences. Banning this fuel would protect the region’s rich wildlife, improve human health and benefit the climate

 Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), a Germany-based environment association, has launched a campaign for a cleaner cruise industry.The cruise ships of the leading providers become cleaner, but still there are too few ships with environmental friendly emission abatement technique. This is a result of the current cruise ship ranking presented by NABU in Hamburg. The ranking examined the planned ship new builds until 2020. It is based on an analysis of recents developments on the European market with a focus on the environmental performance of ships. Decisive were, besides the fuel used, the planned emission abatement technique as well as other emission reducing measures. NABU representatives welcomed at the presentation of the ranking the willingness of some providers such as AIDA and Costa Cruises to get a handle on the massive emission problem of their ships. If the ships enter the market as announced, they will be a worldwide model for high sea ships. The ongoing denial of big market players such as Royal Caribbean und MSC was harshly criticised by the environmental experts.NABU CEO Leif Miller: "The sector is at crossroads, now the chaff is sifted from the wheat. Companies that still dread to invest in emission abatement ...

The West of England P&IU Club advise reminds operators whose tankers have carried Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) as cargo to and complete and return a relevant declaration form.

  Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding (MES) – the MAN Diesel & Turbo licensee – recently demonstrated the liquid-gas-injection concept successfully in Japan. The successful demonstration took place on 17 June, 2015 using the very first ME-LGI engine to ever be commercially produced. The engine, with the type designation 7S50ME-B9.3-LGI, is bound for a vessel currently under construction by Minaminippon Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. Ole Grøne, Senior Vice President – Low Speed Promotion & Sales – MAN Diesel & Turbo described the event as a significant milestone in the development of Diesel technology and said: “The immediate market acceptance of our ME-GI (Gas Injection) engine confirmed the growing demand for low-sulphur, non-HFO options in the face of increasingly stricter sulphur limits in fuel. In turn, extending our dual-fuel engine programme with an ME-LGI unit that can run on liquid fuels was therefore a natural step.” He continued: “The interest in our ME-LGI engine confirms this dual-fuel, lowspeed trend and will offer even more alternatives to HFO, which – apart from methanol – will include LPG, dimethyl ether (DME), and (bio-) ethanol, as well as several other, low-sulphur, low-flashpoint fuels.” Grøne concluded: “We welcome our partners’ interest in ...

  The University of Rostock and the German environmental research centre Helmholzzentrum Munich have conducted a study to explain how shipping exhaust emissions can cause serious diseases, that cost European health services €58 billion annually. The study confirms that Particulate Matter (PM) from both heavy fuel oil and diesel fuel shipping emissions show strong biological effects on human lung cells. Lief Miller, the CEO of conservation NGO NABU, commented: “The results are frightening and confirm our worst fears. Emissions from ships cause serious lung and heart diseases.” For the researchers, legislation enforcing particle filtration and PM limits in shipping is the “next logical target for improving air quality worldwide, particularly in coastal regions and harbour cities”. Dietmar Oeliger, NABU’s transport expert, said, “We really underline the recommendation of the scientists to urgently switch to low sulphur fuels together with effective emission abatement techniques.” The most effective method of cleaning up emissions from shipping is to combine PM filters with low-sulphur fuels, a measure that has long been in place on the roads. Other options include converting ships’ engines to run on gas or retrofitting them with exhaust gas cleaning systems known as “scrubbers”. The study : Methods, Results and Conclusions ...

  DNV GL has presented Oshima Shipbuilding Company with an Approval in Principle (AiP) certificate for a LNG-fuelled Kamsarmax bulk carrier at the Nor-Shipping exhibition in Oslo. The new, innovative design has been found to comply with DNV GL class rules and all current and upcoming regulations, including the new emission control regulations and the draft IGF Code for fuel with a low flashpoint. As regulations on harmful ship emissions such as sulphur become stricter, reducing SOx, NOx, CO2 and particulate matter is at the top of the agenda for many players in the maritime industry. As a result, shipowners and operators are increasingly looking into the use of alternative fuels to ensure compliance for their fleet, now and in the future. “LNG is emerging in a number of ship sectors and has great potential. We were very pleased to work on this innovative design with Oshima. It offers customers a flexible, safe, future-proof solution and the opportunity to almost eliminate SOx emissions and particulate matter, cut NOx by 80 per cent with EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculating) and reduce CO2,” says Morten Løvstad, DNV GL Bulk Carrier Business Director. U-shaped superstructure As space on deck is limited on a bulk ...

  Wärtsilä is launching a series of four new container feeder vessel designs at this year’s Nor-Shipping exhibition being held in Oslo from June 2 to 5. The innovative designs are based upon achieving optimal fuel efficiency, while being compliant with all known current and future environmental regulations.  The four ship designs, namely the WSD80-1500, WSD80-2400, WSD80-4000 and WSD84-2400, feature exceptionally low and best-in-class fuel consumption. Each design is available in three versions; ‘conventional’ using HFO as fuel, ‘environmental’ using HFO with exhaust cleaning scrubber systems, and ‘clean’ with dual-fuel capability and running mainly on liquefied natural gas (LNG). Wärtsilä’s technology and experience in the development of dual-fuel marine engines and LNG fuel supply systems is a key enabler of ship designs that efficiently anticipate the global adoption of LNG as a marine fuel. Fuel flexibility is, therefore, a main feature of these latest Wärtsilä designs along with fuel efficiency, cargo capacity, systems redundancy and the lowest possible levels of exhaust emissions. Since container feeder vessels operate largely within existing or anticipated ECA (Emissions Control Areas) or SECA (Sulphur Emissions Control Areas), environmentally compliant designs are extremely relevant. “Wärtsilä is a global supplier of efficient, reliable, and environmentally sustainable ship ...

  Kai Låtun, VP Sales & Marketing, Yara Marine Technologies AS presentation during the 2015 GREEN4SEA Forum. In the presentation “SOx Scrubbers – a profitable investment ?”, Mr Latun looks at under which conditions the profitability of a scrubber investment should be evaluated. He gives some concrete examples of scrubber installations onboard vessels, and illustrates how to calculate paybacktime for a scrubber investment based on realtime conditions. He also reviews the costs of alternative consumables needed during scrubber operations. Yara Marine Technology, used to be known as Green Tech Marine, founded in 2010. Yara Marine Technology has supplied scrubbers since 2012 so it has tens of thousands of operating hours on scrubbers and experience on it. It is also now part of the Yara Group, which is a large Norwegian cooperation with turn over around $15,000,000,000/year and about 10,000 employees.  First of all I would like to say that I’m very happy about the presentation from Lloyds before, because he showed you a chart with green, yellow and red lines, when does it pay to have a scrubber. And being a scrubber supplier, we have very often come across this question. So, we have simply developed a calculator, where you can put ...