Shipping risks a storm of criticism on social media if it remains wedded to the use of open-loop scrubbers, the first day of the first Global Maritime Forum heard today.
Paddy Rodgers, chief executive of tanker giant Euronav, told the gathering in Hong Kong the implementation of the 2020 IMO rules to cut sulphur emissions could end up as a public relations disaster if the public became widely aware of the issue.
