Shipowners are starting to gear up for South Korea’s stricter environmental emissions rules despite having no time to draw breath after transitioning to IMO 2020 and grappling with the coronavirus pandemic that has caused an unprecedented slowdown in global export trade. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now South Korea will require the use of bunker fuel with maximum 0.1% sulfur content while berthing and anchoring from September 1 at some ports and areas such as Incheon, Yeosu, Busan and Ulsan. A more significant change will come in 2022, when it will become mandatory to use fuel with maximum 0.1% sulfur content in South Korea’s emission control areas, […]