Shipping: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 28th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an estimate of the number of internationally registered merchant vessels regularly using sea routes from UK ports that use fuel that is compliant with the International Maritime Organisation’s 0.5 per cent cap on the sulphur content of shipping exhaust emissions to be introduced on 1 January 2020.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 5th March 2019

As the IMO 2020 requirements are not yet in force ships are not currently required to make use of compliant fuel and information on the use of 0.5% fuel is not being recorded. We would expect operators to begin moving into compliance in late 2019.

All ships which operate in ECA designated waters have been using 0.1 per cent sulphur fuel since 2015 or an equivalent means of compliance. Whilst in these waters, these ships would be meeting the requirements of the 0.5 per cent global cap.

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