| RCI adding scrubbers

FOUR vessels in Royal

Caribbean International’s fleet

will be retrofitted with scrubbing

technology as part of the line’s

effort to reduce carbon emissions.

The line has ordered four units

of the Alfa Laval PureSOx exhaust

gas cleaning systems.

Targets for the systems will be

Freedom of the Seas, Liberty of

the Seas, Independence of the

Seas and Adventure of the Seas.

The hybrid systems work by

inducting seawater into either an

open-loop or closed-loop rotation

near the ship’s funnel, creating a

chemical reaction where exhaust

gases are treated, removing any

pollutants prior to discharge.