Russia’s National Resources Minister, Sergei Donskoi, has supported the reduction of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.
- Donskoi believes that building more LNG-fulled vessels is the first step to reducing the use of HFO.
- Nuclear-powered icebreakers are being built to reduce the use of HFO and the Arctic Council has launched a green shipping project to build vessels that will use Liquefied natural gas as fuel.
- Canadian proposal to reduce risks of use and carriage of HFO has been supported by Russia.
Read more on The Arctic’s website.
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