German Bank to Provide DFDS With €50M Funding for Scrubbers

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday February 10, 2015

Denmark-based DFDS Seaways has received €50 million ($56.7 million) in funding from Germany's KfW IPEX-Bank to install scrubbers aboard 20 ferries, Danish media reports. 

The new additions will help the company comply with Emission Control Area (ECA) regulations, which began limiting sulfur content in marine fuel used in ECAs to 0.10 percent at the beginning of 2015. 

The scrubbers will reportedly decrease sulfur emissions to an equivalent of 0.05 percent, while also decreasing particle emissions by 80 percent. 

Last year, DFDS also announced that the European Union would be providing funds to help the company install scrubbers aboard five freighters. 

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