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Total Marine Fuels Offering New ECA Compliant Distillate, LS IFO Targeted at Scrubber Users
TOTAL Marine Fuels (TMF) in Germany today announced in an emailed statement it is offering new marine fuel products to help vessel owners comply with revised Emissions Control Area (ECA) rules coming into force next year.
Since the beginning of November TMF says it has been offering a new quality DMA gasoil grade that has a maximum density of 0.890 and a maximum sulfur content of 0.10 percent.
The new product is being offered in addition to the traditional DMA gasoil grade with a maximum density of 0.860 and a maximum sulfur content of 0.10 percent, which the supplier says it has been supplying for several years from its bunker installation inside the Kiel-Canal.
"Thorsten Hesse, Manager Sales and Supply is confident that this grade will be of interest to many of our customers having to switch from the LS IFO when the new sulfur regulations come into force at the start of 2015. Both qualities can be delivered ex-pipe from 15 t up to a few hundred tons," the company said.
TMF said it also plans to offer a low sulfur heavy fuel which is suitable for ships equipped with scrubbers, in response to what it said was an increasing use of the technology, especially in the area of Brunsbüttel.
"The quality offered will include both IFO 180 and IFO 380 with a consistent sulfur content of about 1.3%, an essential consideration in the optimization of the scrubber design," said TMF.
"Furthermore the flexibility of the Brunsbüttel facility permits Total Marine Fuels to offer tailor-made solutions from 1.0% to 3.5% sulfur. All these ISO 8217 (E2010) products can be supplied by our barges in the ports of Hamburg, Stade, Brunsbüttel and up to Kiel.
"Finally for vessels using high sulfur fuel with abatement technology or navigating outside the ECA regions the high sulfur grades historically supplied will continue to be available."
Hesse also confirmed that in the future, TMF in Germany will also look to supply liquified natural gas (LNG) bunkers as well as other alternative fuels.
As Ship & Bunker has previous detailed, scrubbers designed to be used with lower sulfur fuels use less energy than scrubbers designed to work with high sulfur fuels.
