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tweet Concerns at the beginning of 2020, that the new limits on sulphur content in shipping fuel could have unpredictable consequences, have not gone away because of Covid-19. Switzerland-based MSC has said that one of its containerships, the 13,050 teu MSC Ariane (IMO 9484443), had been obliged to pause its China-US voyage after a fuel problem gave rise to engine problems. MSC Ariane had to stop at sea on April 2nd due to an engine issue caused by “bad quality of fuel”, MSC said. Maersk, MSC’s partner under the 2M Alliance, said that a tugboat with spare parts had now...
