Merchant Shipping: Exhaust Emissions

(asked on 26th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the rate of compliance on routes from (a) Hull and (b) in the North Sea with lower sulphur dioxide emission limit for merchant vessels which came into force on 1 January 2015.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 29th January 2016

There are no figures for 2015.


However, since 1 January 2016 the Maritime and Coastguard Agency has inspected 34 ships within the North Sea Sulphur Emission Control for compliance with the lower 0.1 per cent sulphur limit. Eleven of these ships had fuel samples taken and analysed, and one ship was found to be marginally non-compliant.


The one ship that was inspected and had its fuel sampled at the port of Hull was found to be within the limit.



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