The blog of Kate Schrøder Jensen, Regulatory Affairs Specialist
“Here I cut through the confusion and rumours about fuel sulphur limits, exhaust gas cleaning, scrubber technology and more. Emissions legislation is complex, but the main question is simple: how does this affect me?”
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As you can read in the introduction to this blog, I’m a regulatory affairs specialist at Alfa Laval. But that’s just a job description.
07-07-2022: The 78th MEPC meeting took place 6–10 June 2022, this time as a virtual event. Many topics were discussed, but in this blog post I’ll highlight the most important developments related to emissions compliance.
23-03-2022: Let me start this post with a small caveat: I am not an expert on the regulation of energy efficiency on ships. This type of regulation has been around since 2012, so technically I’ve had the time to learn. However, it first became a priority when it began to cross over into my own focus on emissions.
25-03-2020: It’s been about a month since the PPR (Pollution Prevention and Response) meeting in London. What, then, is the verdict from a scrubber manufacturer perspective? Or are you more interested in what impact the agreed outcome will have on shipowners?
17-02-2020: A report issued in August by CE Delft, details a new study named “Comparison of CO2 emissions of MARPOL Annex VI compliance options in 2020”, which I will nickname the “WtW study” in reference to its well-to-wake scope. In my new blog I examine the study.
12-02-2020: Next week, IMO’s PPR (Pollution Prevention and Response) subcommittee will have their 7th meeting (PPR 7). The plan for this meeting is to revise the 2015 EGC guidelines. This task has been in the pipeline for the last two years, but more pressing matters such as “IMO 2020” (the global sulphur cap) have led to constant postponements.
06-12-2019: In May of this year, new guidance was approved by IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) and circulated as MEPC.1/Circ.883.
06-11-2019: Since 2015, China has slowly expanded what it calls the Chinese Domestic ECAs, where ECA is short for Emission Control Area. These ECAs should not be confused with the ECAs defined by IMO.
10-09-2019: Describing scrubber sludge as a substance explains that scrubber sludge comes in wide range of viscosities depending on the cleaning equipment installed on board. The majority of ship owners prefer to be able to pump the sludge from ship to shore. The other alternative is to truck/lift it from the ship.
