Anders Skibdal News Today

Denmark's Environment Ministry announced earlier this moth that the discharge of washwater from open-loop scrubbers will be banned in the country's waters from July 2025.

Environmental technology firm PureteQ is partnering with China Shipbuilding Power Engineering Institute to produce scrubbers

Anders Skibdal, CEO of PureteQ, has been taking meetings in China this week to set up the partnership.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Pureteq has become the world’s largest digital service provider for scrubbers, CEO Anders Skibdal tells ShippingWatch. He thinks the market will get going next year but holds that some are exaggerating their growth forecasts.

Ship & Bunker looks at the high/low sulfur spread in 2020, outlook for the spread in the years ahead and other factors impacting the landscape for scrubber uptake.