Vessels entering Taiwanese ports to use 0.5% sulphur limit marine fuel from 1st January 2019.
Country will offer provide special privileges for refineries to encourage low-sulphur fuel production.
Issues Work Instructions to certify ‘qualifying engines’ for earlier vessels, writes legal firm Blank Rome.
Compliance deadline coming fast, but shipping industry is still quite indecisive on which measures to take.
Scrubbers to be installed during routine dry dockings, majority scheduled for 2019 or early 2020.
The latest development means company is targeting to complete 34 scrubber installations by 2020.
Enters Capesize vessel refinancing, private placement of shares and time charter with commodities firm.
Units to be retrofitted on nine bulkers and one tanker from Marmaras Navigation and Delta Tankers.
There is ‘significant interest’ from charterers for scrubber-fitted vessels, says feeder box shipping firm.
Compliance challenges for owners and charterers, and issues IMO faces in enforcing Regulation 14.1.3.
