Could shipowners comply with new European SOx regulations?

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Last week The Loadstar revealed that the European transport sector is heading for a new fuel crisis due to European Union shipping emissions regulations that will force vessels to use the same diesel distillate fuel as the continent’s diesel-powered cars, buses and trucks.

To put it into some sort of context, the latest figures from the UK’s department of energy and climate change recorded that diesel consumption in freight and passenger vehicles in 2010 amounted to 21.3m tonnes, while it has ...