26NOV2018 - NEWS - Germany based container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd opts for scrubbers on ten ships

In order to comply with the IMO 2020 sulphur cap, German container shipping major Hapag-Lloyd announced it has recently ordered ten hybrid-ready scrubbers to be gradually installed to ten of its 13,000 TEU Hamburg class vessels during 2019 and 2020. In March 2019, the retrofits will start and the first EGCS will be installed to the vessel ‘Hamburg Express’ at Qingdao Beihai shipyard in China. The installations are expected to be finished before the end of 2020. The decision was made as a part of the company's response to the IMO’s 2020 sulphur cap. Hybrid scrubber system can run in both open or closed loop mode. Hapag-Lloyd also has 17 new vessels in its fleet, which can be converted to use LNG.

Published by Editor - www.Livebunkers.com at 26-Nov-2018 05:35:40 [UTC] , contact editor at editor@livebunkers.com