date:Oct 08, 2019
New standards will become effective in 2020, including the new guidelines on ship fuel introduced by the IMO (International Maritime Organization), which force shipping companies to use marine diesel oil with a low sulfur content so as to reduce emissions and safeguard the environment.
The new regulation establishes that ships must reduce sulfur oxide emissions (SOx) from the current 3.5%m/m to below 0.5%m/m (mass per mass). This is a considerable change and will probably be costly for operato