德国绝大多数船舶将从明年起使用新的低硫燃料

据全球能源新闻2019年11月30日伦敦报道，德国海运公司的绝大多数船舶最迟将从明年1月1日起使用新的低硫燃料油（LSFO)。这是德国船东协会日前对其旗下成员公司进行的一项调查的结果之一。

虽然调查所得的数据并不代表整个德国航运业的情况，但它确实反映了一些可以外推的观点，因为受访者包括来自德国航运业各个部门的航运公司。

调查的背景下进行的一个最大变化发生在运输领域，这一变化将从现在起不到一个月时间内发生，联合国旗下的国际海事组织(IMO)决定从明年1月1日起全球船只将只使用燃料的硫含量不超过0.5%。

现行的标准规定，船用燃料的最高含硫量为3.5%。

实际上，船舶公司在转换期间有3种选择。调查显示，81%的受访海运企业未来将使用含硫量为0.5%的低硫船用燃料。11%将继续使用重质燃料油(HFO)。根据国际海事组织的规定，这是明确允许的，只要在船上安装废气净化系统，即所谓的洗涤器。

李峻 编译自 全球能源新闻

原文如下：

German Shipping to Use LSFO

The vast majority of ships in the German fleet will run on the new sulfur-reduced fuel (Low Sulfur Fuel Oil, LSFO) from 1 January at the latest. This is one of the findings of a survey conducted by the German Shipowners’ Association (Verband Deutscher Reeder, VDR) among its member companies.

While the body of data obtained through the survey is not representative of the German shipping industry as a whole, it does reflect views that can certainly be extrapolated since the respondents include shipping companies from every sector of the German shipping industry.

The survey was conducted against the backdrop of one of the biggest changes occurring in the shipping sector, a change that will take effect just over a month from now: following a decision by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a subsidiary organization of the United Nations, ships around the world may only use fuel with a sulfur content of no more than 0.5 per cent.

The standard currently in force sets the maximum limit for the sulfur content in maritime fuels at 3.5 per cent.

There are essentially three options available to shipping companies during the changeover. According to the survey, 81 per cent of the companies surveyed will be using LSFO with a sulfur content of 0.5% in the future.

Eleven per cent will continue to use Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO). This is expressly permitted under the IMO rules, provided that exhaust gas purification systems, so-called scrubbers, are installed on the ships.