Verkehr - Particulate Matter emission reduction in international maritime shipping

TEXTE 67/2025 Final report Particulate Matter emission reduction in international maritime shipping by: Dr. Brigitte Behrends Jever publisher: German Environment Agency German Environment Agency TEXTE 67/2025 Project No. 178235 FB001754/ENG Final report Particulate Matter emission reduction in international maritime shipping Analysis and discussion of current status and outlook by Dr. Brigitte Behrends Jever On behalf of the German Environment Agency Imprint Publisher Umweltbundesamt Wörlitzer Platz 1 06844 Dessau-Roßlau Tel: +49 340-2103-0 Fax: +49 340-2103-2285 buergerservice@uba.de Internet: www.umweltbundesamt.de Report performed by: Dr. Brigitte Behrends Kleine Wasserpfortstr. 6 26441 Jever Germany Report completed in: January 2025 Edited by: Section I 2.2 "Pollution Abatement and Energy Saving in the Transport Sector" Katharina Koppe DOI: https://doi.org/10.60810/openumwelt-7816 ISSN 1862-4804 Dessau-Roßlau, May 2025 The responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the author(s). Abstract: Analysis and discussion of particulate matter emission reduction in international maritime traffic Ships emit significant amounts of particulate matter (PM) in addition to other air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides (NOX) and sulfur oxides (SOX). The introduction of a Global Sulfur cap of 0.5% (m/m) in 2020 was supposed to reduce emissions of SOX and indirectly PM, but this has only been partially...