OEM IMPRESSIONS ON POST-IMO 2020 OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

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"So far so good. We prepared for the transition, communicated clearly with our customers and have heard of few problems," Konrad Rass, Director of R&D for WinGD told The Motorship. "While it's too soon to make a definitive judgement, we certainly have not seen the catastrophic switchover that some people outside the industry were expecting before December." Dorthe Jacobsen. head of emissions reduction, fuels and lubricants at MAN Energy Solutions' two-stroke business in Copenhagen offered a similar analysis, adding that MAN had received "sporadic" reports of issues related to cylinder condition, ranging from high wear to scuffing, as well as some issues in the cylinder lubricators. "In the most serious case I have heard about, the ship operator reported scuffing on all of their cylinders," Jacobsen said. "We heard from a containership with damage to a couple of cylinder liners, which was confirmed to have been caused by cat fines," Rass said. Such incidents have been reported by ship operators, from across the market ranging from small to larger size. But it was too soon to draw conclusions from the limited number of incidents reported. "We should be able to form a more accurate picture about what is happening by April," Raess said.