News / New low-sulphur fuel rules pose a costly problem for shortsea and ferry operators

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A 50% increase in fuel costs for shortsea shipping and ferry operators in January next year will “negatively impact on North European export and import trade” according to one major ferry operator.

The surge in costs will result from new low-sulphur regulations applied in Emission Control Areas (ECAs) of the Channel, North Sea and Baltic Sea.

Sweden-based Stena Line, which operates 35 passenger and freight-carrying ships on 19 routes within the SECAs, said that, although it supported the need to improve air ...