But the organisation repeated its warning that the UK passengership industry faces an impossible battle to be ready for the rules next January.

The Chamber was responding to comments from UK transport ministry Stephen Hammond in the House of Commons, in which he said: “I have to say that I am pretty disappointed that the UK Chamber of Shipping continues to react as if the sulphur limits are new and are somehow inherently undesirable, or else that the UK government should have avoided them.”

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