1.  International commodities investor Gunvor Team stated Tuesday it was joining the increasing variety of firms in the shipping field opting for scrubbers to adhere to the International Maritime Organization's global sulfur limit policy for aquatic gas.
2.  https://www.irodtpmp.com/ , a new ship holding business created by Gunvor Group with Oceangold Tankers and Maas Funding, has actually gotten six scrubber ready tankers, Gunvor claimed Tuesday.
3.  The 6 acquired vessels will be supplied in the first fifty percent of 2019, well ahead of the IMO's worldwide sulfur limitation guideline for aquatic gas, it stated in a statement.
4.  The IMO will certainly cover sulfur in aquatic gas at 0.5% worldwide from January 1, 2020, from 3.5% presently. This applies outside designated discharge control locations where the limitation is already 0.1%.
5.  Making use of high sulfur fuel oil with scrubbers is just one of numerous alternatives for adhering to the IMO 2020 rule, but its prevalent fostering has actually been questioned in the past, in part because of the high investment costs associated with setting up the modern technology.
6.  Nonetheless, one sight is that after 2020, there will certainly be a lot HSFO offered that low cost might validate scrubbers simply on financial grounds, making them a more attractive option for conformity.
7.  In March, trading residence Trafigura claimed its order for up to 32 brand-new crude as well as refined product vessels is for all to be fitted with emissions-cleaning scrubbers that will enable the business to proceed using gas oil as its major shelter gas.
8.  South Korea's Hyundai Merchant Marine said last month it was thinking about using LNG shelters or mounting scrubbers in its newbuildings of 20 huge containerships.
9.  In Might, container shipper APL, a part of CMA CGM Group and also headquartered in Singapore, claimed it was taking into consideration an array of shelter fuel options consisting of scrubbers to follow the policy.
10.  The leads for scrubbers are most likely to get a more boost as even more financing methods open.
11.  In May, financial investment bank Goldman Sachs told S&P Global Platts that it was willing to help shipowners fund the installment of scrubber equipment on board their vessels.
12.  Goldman is recommending to aid with this cost by partially pre-financing scrubber setups, allowing shipowners gain access to up to 25% of the initial expense of the scrubber and aiding them secure added funding from their normal debt companies, it stated at the time.
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