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Today’s shipowners face a simultaneous battle on two fronts, according to Jotun.
A growing pressure to comply with ever more stringent environmental regulations is matched by a need to control costs and enhance efficiency, in an increasingly competitive and unpredictable marketplace.
Confronted with such grave challenges, owners have an opportunity, Jotun says, to pick “the low hanging fruit” of advanced antifouling solutions, simplifying compliance while also achieving significant bottom-line benefits.
Environmental ambition
The IMO is expected to redouble its environmental efforts, and legislative focus, over the coming years as it aims to fulfill an ambition of reducing shipping’s carbon footprint by 50% by 2050 (with full decarbonization by 2100). MEPC 75 demonstrated that commitment, with the introduction of two new quantitative measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions per ton-mile of cargo transported: The
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