Yara Marine Delivers Scrubber to Brittany Ferries

Yara Marine Technologies (former Green Tech Marine) – a world leading scrubber supplier – has delivered another successful scrubber project. This time to French ferry operator Brittany Ferries and their ship Normandie, which runs between Portsmouth and Caen. The system onboard Normandie has received MED certificate from Bureau Veritas. The project was very well supervised and executed by STX France.

Brittany Ferries’ director says, very satisfied: “Normandie left the shipyard three weeks ago, and the scrubbers are working perfectly, the level of sulfur oxides in the exhaust gas is lower than 0.1%, in compliance with regulations. We are very pleased with this project, which represents a nice technical challenge. It was completed successfully and without losing neither freight nor passenger space, which was our goal.”

Brittany Ferries tells The Motorship: “The timescale was impressive for a ‘first job’ of this nature, carried out on a comparatively old ship which was designed and built well before the possibility of scrubber installations was ever considered. Much of this is down to the choice of the particular compact system supplied by Yara Marine Technologies of Norway, which is almost entirely contained in an enlarged funnel with little other alteration to the ship proving necessary. Compared with some other ferry scrubber conversions, which have involved lengthening the ship to accommodate the extra equipment, the result is particularly neat.”

As far as the all-important question of economics is concerned, Brittany Ferries director Stephen Tuckwell told The Motorship that at the current price differential of about 40% between LSMGO and HFO the cost of fitting scrubbers will be written off over three years. ”But there are other factors at play,” he added, “such as the availability of fuel types.”