Fuels & Lubricants

Thordon Bearings has questioned the viability of environmentally acceptable lubricants (EALs), claiming that seawater is the only cost-effective and environmentally safe lubricant.

CR Ocean Engineering (CROE) will design and supply two open-loop scrubbing systems for the main engines on the Stena RoRo vessel Forerunner.

Danish company GreenOil reports on a collaboration with ship operator Torm involving using filtration rather than centrifuges to clean lubricating oil in the auxiliary engines of two ships, by Joel Goodstein.

Alok Sharma, head of marine, Inatech, looks at how shipowners can demonstrate that they are in compliance with the new sulphur regulations

Meeting the challenge of the big squeeze that’s about to put the cost of operating in ECAs through the roof means, as Alexandros Chiotopoulos of DNV GL explains to Stevie Knight, “thinking…

Interferry has hailed the agreement made at last week’s IMO Maritime Safety Committee meeting on rules for locating fuel tanks on LNG powered ships as what is needed to safeguard further development…

Sigurd Jenssen, director EGC of Wärtsilä Environmental Solutions, looks at the current state of the exhaust gas cleaning systems market and its application to ships required to comply with very low sulphur…