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Lighter fuel oil blends are believed to be entering Singapore’s bunker stream. The risk with such blends is they may be derived from blending with waxy diesel oil, the use of which can result in excessive sludge, one expert suggests. Traders are bringing in compliant, lighter fuel oil blends to Singapore — the world’s top marine fuel hub.

Weeks into the 2020 sulphur cap taking effect, the Pakistani government has joined a string of other global destinations and banned open-loop scrubbers at the country’s biggest box port. Ships will have to use closed loop scrubbers or complaint fuel when at the port.

On 11^th December the European Commission presented the European Green Deal “transforming the EU’s economy for a sustainable future”. This communication presents an initial roadmap of the key policies and measures needed to achieve the objective of Europe being the first carbon neutral continent by 2050.

Meke Marine, Euroshore member based in Istanbul, Turkey, is pleased to announce that BTC has awarded MEKE for the Provision of Tier 2 Oil Spill Response in Turkey.
The Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is a 1,768 kilometre (1,099 mi) long crude oil pipeline from the Azeri–Chirag–Gunashli oil field in the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. It connects Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan and Ceyhan, a port on the south-eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey, via Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. It is the second-longest oil pipeline in the former Soviet Union, after the Druzhba pipeline.

By Stelios Karampelas, Environmental Scientist MSc, Antipollution, Greece

I am delighted to be given the opportunity to write some thoughts on my participation in the 3rd African Ports Environment & Sustainability Conference as a member of the Euroshore delegation in February 2020. The Conference took place in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, where I had the pleasure and honor to meet and cooperate with executive members of Euroshore, to participate in interesting conversations over sustainable development and to share useful information regarding the company I represented, Antipollution S.A., as Head of Port Reception Facilities Department.