Safe Bulkers installs scrubber system

The scrubber is an open loop, U-Type, Alfa Laval PureSOx. During commissioning it has been tested in several loads and found to comply comfortably with the stricter 0.1% sulphur fuel content limit applicable in environmentally controlled areas.

The installation of the scrubber system was concurrent with the installation of a ballast water treatment system during the scheduled dry-docking of the vessel, as part of the vessel’s second special survey at Cosco Guangzhou shipyard.

Safe Bulkers is scheduled to install a further 18 scrubbers within 2019 and one scrubber in the first quarter of 2020.