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The Off-specification fuel quality report from Lloyd’s Register FOBAS for the first two weeks of October identified 102 instances where a result was outside the 95% confidence limit of the ISO 8217 test parameter or a value given by the BDN or sample label.

Announcing its membership of the industry coalition which supports the robust enforcement of shipping’s sulphur regulations, Hudson Shipping Lines also highlighted its support of a ban on the use of scrubbers.

The vessels, to be built by Mawei Shipyard in China, will be fitted with scrubbers and SCR systems.

Wärtsilä and Norsepower have signed a service cooperation agreement which will enable Norsepower to order service work from Wärtsilä, while Wärtsilä will pursue and sell Norsepower Rotor Sail projects with support from Norsepower.

AIDA Cruises has announced that it plans to be ‘the world’s first cruise company to test the use of fuel cells on a large passenger ship’, when it installs the technology on board the AIDAnova as part of the Pa-X-ell2 research project.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has cut its headline oil demand growth number by 0.1 million barrels per day (mb/d) for 2019 and 2020.

BIMCO is now offering its members a bunker price monitoring service which uses data provided by MABUX to track the spread between high and low sulphur fuels. 

Naval architecture firm VPLP has designed a dual-fuelled Ro-Ro vessel fitted with four 30-metre-high Oceanwings which will reduce fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by an average of 30%.

CMA CGM has announced that, effective from 1 December, it will be applying a low sulphur surcharge (LSS) on top of its ocean freight charges for short-term contracts of three months or less.

Per Funch-Nielsen is joining OceanConnect Marine (OCM) from 20|20 Marine Energy to focus on the promotion of the AuctionConnect bunker procurement platform and other related business development projects.