A persistent lack of clarity over scrubbers is making it difficult to decide whether to install them, senior executives of Greek shipping companies recently told an Athens conference.

Questions range from the pace at which low-sulphur fuels will become available over the coming years, to the conditions of their financing.

“We haven’t decided yet how we’ll move. We’ll decide in early 2019 what to do,” Stamatis Tsantanis, chief executive of US-listed bulker owner Seanergy, said in a panel discussion at the Golden Destiny Shipping Forum.