The International Maritime Organization (IMO) will not delay implementing a reduction in the amount of sulphur in marine fuel in 2020, an IMO official said on Tuesday.
“I can categorically say there will not be a delay,” said Edmund Hughes, the head of air pollution and energy efficiency at the IMO, during the Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference (APPEC) in Singapore.
IMO, the United Nations’ shipping agency, will require that vessels start in 2020 using fuel oil with 0.5 percent sulphur, down from 3.5 percent currently.
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