Restricting scrubbers purely as a precaution makes no sense and will slow the path to carbon neutral shipping, said Poul Woodall, Executive Director of the Clean Shipping Alliance (CSA) on Thursday, 25 February.
The alliance emphasized it understands the drive towards carbon neutral shipping, and shipping companies who are members of its organisation stand behind that ambition.
“However, recommending a restriction on the use of EGCS – a technology that is already putting shipping on the right path towards carbon neutrality -with fundamentally no supporting scientific evidence is only halting the progress we have made so far,” explained Woodall.
A recent CE Delft study found the increase in CO2 footprint from the additional refining of MGO to likely be in the range of 10-15% and potentially as high as 25%.
By contrast, the increased CO2 from EGCS is only in the range of 1.0-1.5%. Furthermore, EGCS technology achieves much lower sulphur (SOx) output than required by the more stringent IMO requirements in effect from 1 January 2020.
This means that EGCS has helped ships to achieve much lower CO2 and SOx targets, noted the CSA
“Now that the European Parliament’s TRAN Committee ‘calls on the Commission… to implement on the basis of an impact assessment, a gradual phase-out of the use of open-loop scrubbers’, they will need to provide solid scientific and evidence-based arguments to the IMO, the shipping industry and citizens.”
The CSA said it expects that an objective risk assessment will only lead to a stronger confirmation of the effectiveness of EGCS.
“The CSA once again emphasizes that years of testing, analyses and operations have shown that these exhaust gas cleaning systems provide a significant improvement in shipping’s air emissions quality without any negative impact on the marine environment,” said Woodall.
The Clean Shipping Alliance 2020 (CSA) represents a group of shipping companies in emission control efforts through their investments in research, analysis and funding on the development and use of Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS) for compliance with the IMO 2020 fuel requirements.
The CSA stands to provide data and relevant information to the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council to ensure all decisions made regarding EGCS technology are scientific and evidence-based.
Related: CSA highlights ‘crucial role’ of scrubbers in ‘smooth transition’ to IMO 2020
Related: CE Delft study reports scrubbers could have a lower carbon footprint than burning LSFO
Photo credit: Clean Shipping Alliance
Published: 1 March, 2021
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