Since January 1, 2020, the number of scrubber-fitted ships has nearly doubled from 2,011 ships to 3,935 by March 1, 2021, data from BIMCO shows. Scrubbers have been a very attractive solution for meeting the IMO 2020 regulation on cutting the sulphur content in marine fuel, especially for bigger ves
Exhaust gas cleaning systems, better known as scrubbers, can play a central role in carbon capture and storage to help drive shipping’s decarbonization, Wärtsilä believes. Specifically, the company argues that as the technology advances it enables manufacturers to design and upgrade scrubbers to cap
Climate Investor Two (CI2) has approved an investment that could amount to €24.5 million (about $29.3 million) to support the lease of Damen’s portable ballast water treatment (BWT) solution InvaSave to clients in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Seaspan Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp., has entered into an agreement to acquire two 15,000 TEU scrubber-fitted containerships. The company said that the 2019-built ships are on a long-term charter with a global liner company. The boxships are expected to be delivered late in
Ecospray has chosen relayr to create new IoT-based desulphurization solutions, driving the maritime industry towards an increasingly digital future.
French shipbuilder Chantiers De’l Atlantique has delivered MSC Virtuosa, MSC Cruises’ newest Meraviglia-Plus II cruise ship. As a sister ship to MSC Grandiosa, the newbuild features a length of 331 meters, a width of 43 meters and a maximum capacity of 6,300 passengers. The two Meraviglia-Plus units
Alfa Laval has joined the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping to work on the development of low- and zero-carbon technologies for the marine industry. As a strategic partner Alfa Laval will be part of the Center’s advisory board, providing strategic and technical guidance for futu
DHT Holdings, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) built in 2016 at Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for a total of $136 million. The vessels are scheduled to deliver during the first half of 2021. The crude oil tanke
Despite a massive drop in premium earnings for ships fitted with scrubbers during 2020, the scope for scrubber cancellations has been limited due to contractual obligations with shipyards and scrubber manufacturers, Gibson Shipbrokers said in its latest weekly report. This might come as a bit surpri
UK’s investment company Tufton Oceanic Assets Limited has expanded its fleet with two containerships fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers).
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) issued its type approval for Alfa Laval PureBallast 2 ballast water treatment system. The system underwent some technical modifications in order to become compliant with the USCG’s testing regime. With the modifications in place, a PureBallast 2 system with a Boll & Kirsc
Ship classification society Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) said that the installation deadlines based on the BWMS Convention for many of its registered ships are still concentrated in the year 2022. As of the end of November 2020, 7,220 of the 9,159 ships registered with ClassNK are obligated to inst
The World Maritime University (WMU) is partnering with industry majors on the EU funded Horizon 2020 (H2020) research project on decarbonizing shipping. The CHEK project aims to demonstrate a combination of innovative ship design and technologies operating in symbiosis on real vessel concept designs
Some 47% of all newly built dry bulkers delivered in 2020 are fitted with exhaust gas cleaning systems, known as scrubbers, data from BIMCO shows. Interest in scrubbers peaked in 2018 and 2019 ahead of the implementation of the IMO 2020 sulphur cap that entered into force in January 2020. Bulk carri
