Ports and Shipping - WORLDWIDE SHIPPING INDUSTRY - Shipowners see rise in IMO-compliant fuels, but doubts persist.

• Position: International Maritime Organization - Brief article

Shipowners, who are facing one of the biggest changes in the oil industry in decades, are seeing more fuels that will be compliant with new rules on sulphur emissions from ships, but some say the way forward is far from clear.

The United Nations shipping agency the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will from January 2020 limit the sulphur content in fuel ships use to 0.5 percent. With the exception of some zones around northwest Europe and North America known as Emission Control Areas where maximum sulphur content is restricted to 0.1 percent sulphur, the current global cap is 3.5percent. The...