Scrubber Critics, Advocates in Fresh Exchange Over Usage Restrictions
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Monday May 3, 2021 Groynes, Baltic Sea. File Image / Pixabay Critics of marine exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) have used the launch of a new report to renew calls for restrictions on use of the technology, prompting advocates of so-called scrubber technology to reiterate their position that there is no evidence to suggest such measures are warranted. The publication released by the
International Council on Clean Transport (ICCT) uses pre-pandemic data on shipping movements to project where and by how much scrubber washwater deposits will be made. It assumes