Exhaust gas scrubber wash water usually gets a bad rap, with a number of ports and region’s banning its discharge into their waters. That could change. Wärtsilä and the Grimaldi Group have
FEBRUARY 15, 2018 — Underwater repair specialist Hydrex has been carrying out an increasing number of repairs to the pipe work and overboard outlets of ships equipped with exhaust gas scrubbers. Diver/technicians
JANUARY 13, 2015 — Parsippany, NJ, based Belco Technologies Corporation, a division of DuPont Sustainable Solutions, has been awarded a contract for two Belco Marine Scrubbers by Interlake Steamship Company. The closed
DECEMBER 22, 2014 — Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (NYSE/OSE: RCL) will retrofit 19 of its cruise ships with “advanced emissions purification (AEP) systems,” in other words exhaust gas scrubbers. It says the
MARCH 31, 2014 — More shipowners are deciding that exhaust gas scrubbers are the most practical way to comply with increasingly tough regulations on fuel sulfur and vessel emissions. The trend has
AUGUST 23, 2013 — Danish shipowner DFDS is to use scrubber technology to help it meet regulations that will put a 0.1 percent cap on the sulfur content of marine fuel from
JUNE 24, 2013 — Norwegian cruise and ferry operator Color Line has contracted Wärtsilä to retrofit four exhaust gas cleaning systems to its SuperSpeed 2 Ropax ferry. The installation is expected to
JANUARY 17, 2013 — Norwegian Cruise Line’s 2,124 passenger U.S.-flag cruise ship, Pride of America, is to fitted with Green Tech Marine exhaust gas scrubbers as part of its upcoming $30 million
With growing pressures for bans on the discharge of wash water from ships’ exhaust gas scrubbers, Netherlands-based SodaFlexx International has launched an alternate means of exhaust gas desulfurization that, it says, is
Saying that its CCS-Ready scrubbers are now “being sold at pace,” Wärtsilä is now offering carbon capture and storage (CCS) feasibility studies to shipowners and operators. Studies have already been conducted on
