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What I tried I ordered a handful of Public Goods items to use in place of my normal household items: mandarin basil liquid dish soap ($4.25 for one bottle), walnut scrubber sponges ($4.75 for four) and tree-free toilet paper ($6 bath blossom bamboo body brush for back scrubber six rolls).

“But, we expect that over time there will be more scrubber investment actually beyond 2020 – into the 2020-2024 range – we would see perhaps that demand growing back for high-sulphur fuel oil versus the short-term shift to very low-sulphur fuel oil.”

In the run-up to IMO 2020, dozens of traders and ship owners, bet on installing scrubbers hoping to make a profit from buying cheaper high-sulphur fuel as the newly developed 0.5% alternative would be in tight supply.

“There’s been scrubber investment … that’s the proportion of folks that will continue to use high-sulphur fuel oil although we see a significant reduction in demand in the short run,” Sharon Weintraub, Chief Executive Officer for Supply and Trading, Eastern Hemisphere at BP told Reuters.

But as the deadline approaches, analysts and traders agree that demand for the dirtier HSFO will not die out completely as an increasing number of ships get equipped with sulphur-cleaning devices in the coming years to combat pollution.

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Leading Norwegian firm Wallenius Wilhemsen, which transports cars and other vehicles, told Reuters it had cancelled scrubbers for nine ships in the past few months and postponed an additional eight until later this year or 2021.

The global oil price crash has also prompted a slide in the differential between lower (LSFO) and higher-sulphur fuel (HSFO) to as low as $40 a tonne, from over $300 at the start of the year, eating into profitability for companies who paid for scrubbers and lengthening the time for a return on their investment.

SINGAPORE, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Asia’s spot premium for 380-centistoke (cst) high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) is expected to ease gradually from its recent record highs as shippers adopt cleaner marine fuels next year to meet new, tougher rules on emissions from ships.

LONDON, Oct 29 (Reuters) – U.S.

sanctions on a top Chinese shipping fleet is set to produce a totally unintended result — less burning of the dirtiest marine fuels at sea at the start of next year, Refinitiv data showed on Tuesday.

“One time my wife brought home a bottle of shampoo that said ‘for limp hair.’ I thought, ‘Oh, what a great message,'” Hirsh told CNET. “Walk into a store and you’re bound to feel deficient because brands want to tell you your problems and then be your solution.”

Regulations from United Nations agency the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which took effect in January, were viewed by the oil and shipping industries as one of the first worldwide efforts to enforce environmental change.

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What is it? Public Goods is a membership-based online home goods store with a hodgepodge of business models rolled into one. Akin to Costco, members pay an annual fee of $59 to access lower-priced items.

The move to blacklist ships from COSCO on Sept. 24 for allegedly ferrying sanctioned Iranian oil will undercut demand for ships’ traditional means of power because a vessel crunch meant fewer docked and attached kit to filter the dirtier fuels.

If I must say one thing, it’s that I wasn’t a fan of the shampoo bar, but this measure is totally subjective. There’s nothing wrong with the product; I just learned I prefer liquid shampoo, even if a bar is more sustainable in terms of packaging.

Shivakumar, chief financial officer with the Great Eastern Shipping Company, said it would go ahead with a number of scrubber installations despite the change in the fuel differential, which he described as “disappointing”. (Additional reporting by Roslan Khasawneh in Singapore; Editing by Veronica Brown and Pravin Char)

LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) – Ship owners are postponing or cancelling the installation of “scrubbers” that extract harmful sulphur emissions from their vessels as the coronavirus pandemic tightens finances.

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