CHINA's
Cosco Shipping Lines (Cosco) is
about to complete scrubber installations, a plan that was announced in 2019.
Three vessels owned by China Shipping Container Lines
(CSCL) before Cosco acquired
the group as part of the government's move to consolidate state-owned
companies, CSCL
Mercury, CSCL Jupiter and CSCL Saturn, 14,000 TEU sister container ships, arrived in the
Liuheng yard of Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry (Zhoushan), on June 14, 2020.
The ships are the last of 10
vessels that Cosco earmarked in 2019 for scrubber retrofits, which usually take
15 to 30 days, depending on the size of the vessel, reports Container News, Jacksonville.
The scrubbers are provided by
Finnish firm Valmet, which has four production units and three service centres
in China. Scrubber-fitted ships can continue burning, cheaper, high-sulphur fuel
oil and comply with the International Maritime Organization's emission
regulations that became effective this year.
The scrubber system delivery for
Cosco Shipping Lines will include a tailor-made
open-loop scrubber system for main engine and generator engines including auxiliary
systems and automation.
In its 2019 financial report, the
shipping line said that as at the end of the year, scrubber installations were
completed on seven of the ships. The retrofitting schedules were planned
according to the route and refuelling ports of the ships, as Zhoushan is a
major bunkering port in China.
Source : HKSG.
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