Scrubber use could lead to ‘long-term pain’
Scrubber technology has struggled to convince the shipping industry of its merits, with some shipowners refusing to install such devices and some major ports banning open-loop scrubbers over pollution fears. The controversy continued at Nor-Shipping this week, when it heard the argument that investing sums of $5m just to create the arbitrage between high-sulphur fuel oil and low-sulphur fuel oil will turn out to be misguided
Golden Ocean and Wallem call on charterers to require and incentivise change of owners’ behaviour