Scrubbing up well

摘要

With mere months left before the introduction of IMO's sulphur cap, refit yards are tackling a burgeoning number of scrubber installations. Meanwhile, many shipowners are left with little alternative but to wait and hope that their low-sulphur contingencies don't come unstuck. Perhaps unsurprisingly, some scrubber manufacturers believe their optimism is misguided. "There arc 35-40,000 ships [suitable for scrubber installation] where the owners haven't made their decision," says Ken McClelland, technical director of Pacific Green Technologies (PGT), noting that the biggest surge of orders took place in the fall of 2018, when the more entrepreneurial shipowners took action.