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Title: Scrubbers - an anti view
Post by: davidships on June 25, 2019, 12:20:46 PM
For those with an interest in the reduction of sulphur emissions, Paddy Rogers/Euronav's views on scrubbers (that have turned funnels into brutalist monstrosities) caught my eye:

https://shipinsight.com/articles/paddy-rogers-fires-a-final-blast-at-scrubbers (https://shipinsight.com/articles/paddy-rogers-fires-a-final-blast-at-scrubbers)
Title: Re: Scrubbers - an anti view
Post by: chrisg46 on June 25, 2019, 05:07:26 PM
Interesting piece, David.
Title: Re: Scrubbers - an anti view
Post by: pieter melissen on June 26, 2019, 01:31:08 PM
There has been a phase in my life where I was sometimes involved in trying to convince shipowners that they had options to improve the environment and avoid large scale pollution. The arguments now brought forward by the ex-Euronav man remind me very much of what I had to listen to back then. (and which turned out  to be Dinosaur language.)
Title: Re: Scrubbers - an anti view
Post by: libertyshiplad on June 26, 2019, 07:35:30 PM
Visual aspect of scrubbers - to us shipspotters I suppose an environmental eyesore !
Title: Re: Scrubbers - an anti view
Post by: pieter melissen on June 27, 2019, 10:07:47 AM
If the scrubbers make your eyes hurt, then ask the shipowners then to burn low sulphur fuel oil or LNG..
Title: Re: Scrubbers - an anti view
Post by: davidships on June 27, 2019, 01:02:49 PM
Quote from: pieter melissen on June 27, 2019, 10:07:47 AM
If the scrubbers make your eyes hurt, then ask the shipowners then to burn low sulphur fuel oil or LNG..
Which is exactly what Paddy Rogers advocated, it seems.
Title: Re: Scrubbers - an anti view
Post by: pieter melissen on June 29, 2019, 07:49:05 PM
Quote from: davidships on June 27, 2019, 01:02:49 PM
Quote from: pieter melissen on June 27, 2019, 10:07:47 AM
If the scrubbers make your eyes hurt, then ask the shipowners then to burn low sulphur fuel oil or LNG..
Which is exactly what Paddy Rogers advocated, it seems.


posobly knowing that powerful flagstates, backed up by New York based lawyers would fiercely oppose,