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A&P Falmouth Awarded Scrubber Retrofit Contract for Condor Ferries
A&P Falmouth has been awarded a contract to install exhaust gas scrubbers on two Condor Ferries vessels in order to help the company meet IMO MARPOL sulfur emission regulations, local media reports.
The ferries involved are the Commodore Clipper and Commodore Goodwill.
"This contract underpins our continued growth here in Falmouth and reinforces our offering to the market as the emissions deadline approaches," said Gerald Pitts, director for A&P Falmouth.
He added that his company's long track record of project management makes it ideally suited to undertake "the most complex of marine engineering projects."
Under the multi-million dollar contract, A&P's technical team will collaborate with scrubber manufacturer and DuPont subsidiary BELCO to remove the vessels' exhaust silencers from the uptakes and replace them with new BELCO scrubber canisters as well as electrical controls, monitoring systems, sea water pumps, hydro cyclone units, and pipework.
According to DuPont, the scrubbers will allow the ferries to continue to operate on heavy fuel oil (HFO) while inside the European Emissions Control Area (ECA).
Earlier this year Ship & Bunker reported that while scrubber sales had been hit by the drop in bunker prices, Garrett Billemeyer, DuPont's global technology development manager, said "shippers with a long-term view will focus on marine scrubbers as an advantageous solution."
