The 2020 low-sulphur deadline is proving a boon for Turkish shipyards, with Besiktas, one of the biggest, revealing it is installing scrubbers on 35 vessels.
The yard at Yalova in the northwest has won business for scrubber retrofits on 10 MR tankers for Denmark’s Norden. Italy’s Grimaldi Lines has commissioned installations on seven car carriers.
“Eighteen more projects will be confirmed within March 2019,” Besiktas managing director Yavuz Kalkavan told TradeWinds.
