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News / Atlantic Container Line reinforces its faith in scrubbers to comply with new fuel rules

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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 ...

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  • Tony White

    November 30, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    For 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 ?

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