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Costs and benefits of reducing SO2 emissions from shipping in the Greek seas

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  • Ernestos Tzannatos

    (Department of Maritime Studies, University of Piraeus, 40 Karaoli & Dimitriou, Piraeus 18532, Greece.)

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A future designation of the Mediterranean Sea as a Sulphur Emission Control Area will mandate the use of low-sulphur fuels by all shipping within the Mediterranean basin, or it will necessitate the application of SO2 exhaust emissions from shipping. According to the results of this work, it is found that international shipping within the Greek seas produces higher external (SO2 emission costs which outweigh the increase in fuel costs. This was found to be most evident in the case of international shipping, since its current fuel use within the Mediterranean is limited by the IMO global sulphur cap of 4.5 per cent, allowing for sizeable desulphurization of fuel with significant impact on the private and external costs relationship. On the contrary, the impact of sulphur capping on the private and external costs associated with the domestic shipping within the Greek seas is found to be less significant, because the passenger ships which dominate domestic operations are already restricted to fuel use with 1.5 per cent sulphur by the relevant EU legislation. Finally, it is shown that for maximum reduction of SO2 emission costs from domestic (passenger) shipping within the Greek seas, the application of seawater scrubbing offers a substantially lower private cost alternative than that of using ultra-low (0.1 per cent) sulphur fuel.

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  • Ernestos Tzannatos, 2010. "Costs and benefits of reducing SO2 emissions from shipping in the Greek seas," Maritime Economics & Logistics, Palgrave Macmillan;International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), vol. 12(3), pages 280-294, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:marecl:v:12:y:2010:i:3:p:280-294
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