An executive at tanker benchmark operator, Teekay Tankers, has given the clearest indication yet of the company’s post-2020 sulphur cap tanker fuelling option. Although Teekay has several LNG-fuel tankers on order, speaking at the IBIA Asia Bunker Symposium in Singapore, Teekay’s regional commercial manager, Ashley Noronha said “We are certainly not going to modify our existing vessels for LNG; scrubbers will not meet the deadline; (the) majority of our vessels are going to be using distillates,” reported Platts.
Mr Noronha is reported to have told delegates that the costs associated with retrofitting tankers with scrubbers, testing and monitoring systems, and the availability of sludge treatment facilities in ports has ruled out the use of scrubbers.
Mr Noronha’s comments will no doubt be very interesting to delegates at the Sulphur Cap 2020 conference and awards, who will be already grappling with the implications of the decisions taken last week at the IMO.
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