Sulphur

In 2010, the “Cap San Lorenzo", a Hamburg Süd ship, made a very practical contribution to supporting worldwide efforts to lower the sulphur dioxide content in the waste gas plume of large vessels. On a voyage through the Gulf of Mexico, the vessel used low sulphur marine gas oil (LSMGO) with an extremely low sulphur content of 0.1 per cent. A few months later the Cap San Lorenzo again used LSMGO while entering and leaving the port of Santos. Hamburg Süd thus enabled the US Environmental Protection Agency to collect data on the use of low sulphur fuels on a commercial vessel for the first time.