Tag: SECA

The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland has issued a study entitled "Sulphur content in ships bunker fuel in 2015" regarding the impacts of the new IMO regulations on transportation costs. On 10 October 2008 the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) unanimously adopted the revised Annex VI to MARPOL 73/78 (International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships), which places restrictions on nitrogen and sulphur oxides emissions from ship traffic. Lowering the sulphur content in fuels will also be a way to reduce emissions of particulate matter from shipping. The new Annex enters into force on 1 July 2010. The sulphur content of fuel will fall in the special areas (SECA = Sulphur Emission Control Area), which are the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the English Channel, from 1.5% to 1% from 1 July 2010, and to 0.1% from 1 January 2015. Globally, the highest permitted sulphur content of fuel will fall, as from 1 January 2012, from 4.5% to 3.5%, and to 0.5% from 1 January 2020. The use of sulphur scrubbers will still be allowed, so that the fuel grades currently in use on vessels fitted with them can ...

In a position paper published today, European shipowners ask EU Member States to adopt a clear, long-term and above all harmonised position on the issue of the discharges of washwater produced by open-loop scrubbers installed on ships. The EU Sulphur Directive requires that, as of 1 January 2015, all ships sailing in the SECAs (Sulphur Emission Control Areas - the Channel, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea) use bunker fuels with a maximum sulphur content of 0.1% or that the same level of emissions is reached by the use of alternative fuels or compliant abatement technologies. Scrubbers are devices that use water to wash unwanted substances from an exhaust gas stream. They have been identified as one of the few abatement technologies available that allow ships to reduce the sulphur content in their emissions.   The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a source of concern for European shipowners as it sets limits for the content of pollutants in ports, estuaries and coastal areas. This in turn means that the discharges of washwater will in some areas be well under the limits set by the WFD, while in other areas with poorer water quality, washwater discharges might be prohibited ...

The Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland issues a study entitled "Sulphur content in ships bunker fuel in 2015"

Baltic Ports Organization (BPO) and Port of Tallinn organized a seminar, which took place in Estonia, in Muuga Harbour, to discuss over the development of LNG infrastructure in the Baltic Sea ports. Seminar's keynote speech was given by the Vice-President of the European Commission Siim Kallas. Main topics of the seminar were the impact of new LNG terminals in Estonia and Finland to the distribution of LNG in the region and the possibility to develop a small scale LNG bunkering network in the Baltic Sea region. Future visions of ship owners about LNG distribution network were also described. According to Ain Kaljurand, the Chairman of the Management Board of Port of Tallinn, ensuring the transition from traditionally fuelled engines can be achieved with guaranteeing ship owners and ship operators possibilities to shift vessels between ports in the area without losing the access of LNG bunkers. "It is Port of Tallinn's aim to ensure the availability of the necessary infrastructure in our harbours also after the environmental norms toughen, in order to guarantee the smooth and sustainable movement of cargo and passenger ships," added Kaljurand. "Thanks to BPO's initiative already seven Baltic Sea ports have joined the LNG Baltic Sea program. ...

The Finnish cargo company Containerships, has ordered two additional new, state-of-the-art, dual-fuel engine-technology container ships

The new sulphur directive for shipping traffic within the North European SECA area, is good for the environment but has a significant economic impact on Stena Line's business

The increasing use of LNG as a marine fuel is further emphasised with the latest order for Wärtsilä's dual-fuel engine technology

ABS has been chosen to class two LNG-fueled containerships to be built in China for German owner GNS Shipping/Nordic Hamburg

DeltaLangh has been assigned to deliver Deltamarin Floating Construction Ltd with an exhaust gas cleaning (scrubber) system

DeltaLangh's exhaust gas cleaning system onboard Langh Ship's M/S Laura received a final class approval from Germanischer Lloyd on June 17, 2014