Vessels line up for scrubber installation, wait grows: Wartsila

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London—There are “very long waiting lists at some shipyards,” particularly in China, for installation of scrubbers on vessels to ensure compliance with IMO 2020 marine fuel regulations, a leading scrubber technologist said this week. “Scrubbers are made to order and the standard lead time is six months,” Sigurd Jenssen, a director at Wartsila Corporation, a Finland-based marine technologist, said in an interview. Wartsila is a prominent manufacturer of marine scrubbers for wet exhaust gas cleaning, along with other companies including Sweden-based Alfa Laval. After manufacture, the equipment is installed by shipyards, where queues for installation have now built up.