Demand for scrubber technology is declining despite it once being hailed as a solution for many to meet the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) 2020 guidelines on sulphur content in fuels.
Wärtsilä, a supplier of the fuel-cleaning technology, said that customer interest in scrubber investments has dropped in the second quarter of 2020 because of turmoil in the oil markets.
Wärtsilä President and CEO, Jaakko Eskola, commented on the low scrubber investments during a report on its first half 2020 earning which saw many challenges presented across the business due to the effects of COVID-19…
