QFI27 May 2018 01:22
What the hell were maersk thinking off.....
If you were wondering why the IMO is cracking down on sulfur emissions I was able to find a few pieces of information�..and they are startling...
One report (1) indicates that just 15 of the world�s largest ships emit as much pollution as the entire global automobile fleet (almost 1 billion cars). That sounds crazy until you realize that the low grade bunker fuel (or fuel oil) used in ships has 2,000 times the sulfur content of diesel fuel used in cars.
The ships aren�t the problem; it is the high sulfur fuel that they burn.
Combine that information with a few other eye opening facts:
These large container ships have 109,000 horsepower engines which weigh 2,300 tons --- they burn a lot of fuel!
That each ship typically 24hrs a day for about 280 days a year --- they almost never stop!
There are more than 90,000 ocean-going cargo ships --- there are a lot of them!
70% of all ship emissions are within 400km of land --- they operate in sensitive locations
Another report, this one published in the Environmental Science and Technology concluded that the emissions from the 90,000 plus cargo ships in operation globally cause 60,000 deaths per year from lung and heart problems and create $330 billion in health care costs.
Apparently sulfur emissions are very bad.........