Photo politeness Iceland’s Ministry for the Environment and also Natural Resources

Iceland is transferring to outlaw using hefty gas oil as the N ordic island country wants to tidy up air top quality around its seaside locations.

The brand-new law was provided this month as a change to existing guidelines by Iceland’s Ministry for the Environment and alsoNatural Resources

The change minimizes the optimum allowed sulphur material of aquatic gas utilized in Iceland’s territorial and also inland waters from 3.5 percent presently to 0.1 percent beginning on January 1, 2020. This will certainly bring Iceland in-line with present Emissions Control Areas specified by Annex VI of MARPOL.

Combined with the upcoming IMO 2020.5 percent sulphur cap, the brand-new law will successfully outlaw using high sulphur aquatic gas around Iceland and also its territorial waters.

“This will make the permissible sulphur content in marine fuels in Iceland 0.1% in the territorial sea and internal waters, i.e. also in fjords and bays,” the Ministry for the Environment and also Natural Resources stated in a declaration. “Further out to sea and outside of territorial waters, the sulphur content cannot exceed 0.5%. Heavy fuel oil has a higher sulphur content than this in most cases, and thus the regulation effectively brings a halt to the use of heavy fuel oil around Iceland.”

Ship’s fitted with authorized exhaust gas cleansing systems, also known as scrubbers, will certainly still be allowed to shed HFO while callingIceland