A handful of shipping companies are banding together to push for tighter testing of sulphur emissions.

Lines including Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) and Maersk Line have held an exploratory meeting to discuss the formation of a coalition under the name of the Trident Alliance.

Representatives of a dozen shipping companies met in Copenhagen at the end of May to draft plans for a new body with the goal of “robust enforcement of maritime sulphur regulation”.

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