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Clean Shipping Alliance Disappointed in Turkeys Scrubber Washwater Ban by Ship & Bunker News Team Tuesday April 13, 2021 Scrubber advocate group the Clean Shipping Alliance has registered its disappointment at the news of Turkeys ban on the discharge of scrubber washwater in its territory, saying it incorrectly interprets this water as a pollutant. "Wash water from exhaust gas cleaning systems should not be interpreted as a form of marine pollution," Mike Kaczmarek, chairman of the Clean S...

Shipping Companies Take on Scrubber Service Contracts After Warranties End by Ship & Bunker News Team Wednesday March 17, 2021 Shipping companies who bought scrubbers in the run-up to 2020 are starting to take on long-term service agreements for the emissions-cleaning systems as their initial warranties come to an end. Scrubber manufacturer January and February, it said in an emailed statement on Wednesday. "As warranties end, ship-owners now find their way back to the supplier for servic...

Wärtsilä is setting up a 1MW pilot plant at its test facility in Moss, Norway to develop the idea.

Bunker One Offers Live Streaming of Bunkering Operations, May Help Avoid Disputes by Ship & Bunker News Team Monday March 1, 2021 Marine fuel supplier Bunker One is allowing some of its customers to view live video streaming of their ship being bunkered to bring more transparency to the process. Buyers taking deliveries via Bunker Ones barge the  Amak Swan can now view a live video of the operation, or view the recording for up to 45 days afterwards, a company representative told Ship & ...

Greek Tech Firms Tool Assesses Vessel Options Against Carbon Goals by Ship & Bunker News Team Thursday February 25, 2021 Poseidon Principles.  File Image  Pixabay. A Greek technology firm has come up with a predictive tool to determine the best path for ships financed under environment-friendly Poseidon Principles. Metis Cyberspace Technology "has refined its cloud-based data acquisition and ship performance reporting solution to offer shippings first tool to predict the trade-off between e...

Concept at design/testing phase but generated a lot of interest at trade show.

Rising crude prices and pressure on middle distillates from the cold snap in the US are delivering greater profits for scrubber-equipped tonnage.

With production aimed at maritime sector.

Widening bunker price spreads are making themselves felt in the tanker markets.

Feen Marine Reports 88 Scrubber Retrofit Orders in 2020 by Ship & Bunker News Team Friday February 12, 2021 Scrubber manufacturer Of those orders, 76 were delivered last year and 12 more are yet to be scheduled, Feen Marine said in a statement on its website this week. The companys average retrofit time was about 20 days, and its shortest was 12 days. Jan Fredrik Gulbransen, sales director at Feen Marine, said in the statement. "New machinery that has been installed in our factory has ...