Sulphur cap to be implemented by 2020
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has ruled that its 0.5% sulphur emissions cap should be implemented by 2020.
Delegates at the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) were tasked with deciding whether the cap should be implemented by 2020 or 2025.
The global cap on the content of sulphur in marine fuel by 2020 or 2025 was first agreed in 2008. The sulphur limit for marine heavy fuel oil is 3,500 times higher than the limit for diesel used in Europe’s cars and trucks, making the shipping industry by far the world’s biggest emitter of SO2.
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