Diversions from Red Sea proving a real ‘silver lining’ for carriers
The current equilibrium between supply and demand in container shipping depends on the duration of ...
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By Mike Wackett
The shipping industry is split into two camps ahead of the IMO’s 2020 0.5% sulphur cap regulations: those that believe that scrubbers – exhaust gas cleaning systems – are the answer; and those that do not.
Atlantic Container Line (ACL) a north Atlantic container ro-ro specialist, owned by Grimaldi Group, already has scrubbers installed on its five G4-class 3,800 teu-plus 1,300 vehicle container ro-ro ships.
And the carrier has now signed a three-year deal with scrubber manufacturer Alfa Laval to retrofit the PureSOx systems ...
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Tony White
November 30, 2018 at 5:59 pmFor MSC Now that Singapore have started the snowball of ports banning open loop scrubbers. How many installations already completed or still in refit will need to be scrapped or re-worked and what is the cost ?
Will ship owners have any recourse for the money they laid out in good faith to have these scrubbers fitted in the first place ?