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It’s back to the seventies, warns DFDS

The north European short-sea is facing a fuel price hike 50% bigger than the oil price 'shock' of the 1970s, warns DFDS Seaways. Poul Woodall, director of sustainability and environment at the Danish-owned ferry operator, told a recent customer presentation that his own analysis of the likely effect of new Marpol limits on the sulphur content of marine fuel would be to substantially increase the cost of this major expense ... [+]