Newport Shipping Group has bought 100 exhaust gas scrubbers with options for another 100 units from China's Weihai Puyi Marine Environmental Technology (Puyier).
Bulk purchase of the IMO 2020 devices aims to safeguard shipowners against price hikes or production bottlenecks as demand increases, the London-based ship repairer said.
“Together with our existing global network of drydocks, we can now offer the marine industry its first-ever turnkey scrubber retrofit solution," Newport Shipping chief executive Erol Sarikaya said.
