LONDON, April 13 (Reuters)– The International Maritime Organization claimed it authorized on Friday a modification that would certainly outlaw ships unequipped to strip sulphur from lugging high-sulphur gas from 2020– when brand-new sulphur-content limitations enter impact

New 2020 limitations reduced the quantity of sulphur in the gas that ships worldwide are permitted to utilize, from 3.5 to 0.5 percent by 2020. However, ships that have actually set up scrubbers that can get rid of sulphur as gas is shed can remain to utilize higher-sulphur gas

The modification to MARPOL Annex VI authorized on Friday would certainly make it prohibited for ships without scrubbers to lug gas over the sulphur restriction in their supply systems, however would certainly permit any kind of ship to lug greater sulphur gas as freight

The authorization is the 2nd to last action called for in order to formalise the restriction on lugging gas oil– which is itself an action targeted at making it less complicated to impose the more stringent sulphur limitations

The IMO will certainly next off need to officially take on the modification at the team’s conference in October (Reporting By Jonathan Saul and also Libby George Editing by Susan Fenton)

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