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Investment of DFDS in order to equip of scrubber the employed ships ro-ro of the group in the Mediterranean
They will be installed on 12 ferries goods that operate on the routes that connect Turkey, Italy and France
September 19, 2018
Shipowning group Danish DFDS has announced an investment of 300 million Danish crowns (40 million euros) in order to install scrubber for the cleansing of the drainage smoke on 12 employed ferries goods in the Mediterranean on the routes that connect Turkey, Italy and France.
The initiative is time to conform the fleet of the group employed in the region through the company of Turkish navigation U.N. Ro-Ro, than DFDS it has recently acquired completing the transaction to beginning june ( on 7 June 2018), to the new norms on the sulfur tenor in the fuel to naval use that will take effect on January 1°, 2020 and that they establish that the maximum content is of 0.50% in mass, norms that previews moreover the possibility to use technologies alternatives for the reduction of the emissions of the ships, between which the exactly scrubber that they are systems of treatment of the smoke for purification of drainage gases.
DFDS has specified that the investment is decided on the base of the plan of adoption of systems scrubber started in 2015 from the group for at the best maximum passage of 0.1% of the sulfur tenor in the fuel relatively on the employed ferries of the group in Europe North.
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