Shipping - US to be big winner of new IMO shipping rules.

The United States is set to be the big winner from new marine fuel rules, trading house Gunvor Group quoted as saying on Wednesday, while rival merchants said the world would not face a shortage of distillates as a result of new rules to cut pollution. The UN's International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has set new rules that will ban ships from using fuels with a sulphur content above 0.5 percent from 2020, compared with 3.5 percent now, unless they are equipped with so-called scrubbers to clean up sulphur...

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