Shipping making billions by using scrubbers to run on heavy fuel oil, study claims

Emissions from scrubber discharge have caused pollution to the Baltic Sea corresponding to socio-economic costs of more than EUR 680m ($732m) between 2014 and 2022, according to a new study. A new study from the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden showed that the shipping companies’ investments in the much-discussed technology, where exhaust gases are …

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