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efficiency. Indeed, new paints that keep hulls free of barnacles and containing no more than 1.5 per cent sulphur have to be used.
other sea life offer energy efficiencies of around 10 per cent. As standard, all members of the Container Shipping Information
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Better ship-handling techniques, waste heat recovery and sulphur content of marine heavy fuel to 4.5 per cent.
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the current US position, and envisages a three per cent sulphur
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share applying globally from 2012 and one per cent in ‘Sulphur Even at the end of life for ships and their boxes, environmental
Emission Control Areas’ from 2010, with the level reduced to 0.5 concerns are kept at the forefront. Containers last for a considerable
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