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Safe Bulkers Begins Scrubber Program

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.

July 15, 2019

Safe Bulkers, the provider of marine drybulk transportation services, announced that the first scrubber was successfully installed and commissioned on MV Martine, a Japanese, Post-Panamax class vessel, built in 2009.

The US-listed operator of drybulk vessels for transporting bulk cargoes said that the scrubber is open loop, U-Type, Alfa Laval PureSOx and during commissioning has been tested in several loads complying comfortably with the stricter 0.1% sulfur fuel content limit applicable in Environmentally Controlled Areas (ECA).

The installation of scrubber was done concurrently with ballast water treatment system during the scheduled dry-docking of the vessel, as part of vessel’s second special survey at Cosco Guangzhou shipyard.

Safe Bulkers has scheduled to install 18 additional Scrubbers within 2019 and 1 Scrubber in the first quarter of 2020.

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