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by mschuster91 951 days ago
The problem is, shipping is incredibly price sensitive (as evidenced by the industry's SOP of using cheap flag states, exploiting labor and burning bunker fuel aka refinery residue). As long as said refinery residue is cheap, they'll keep the old guzzlers for as long as they can, and only convert a couple "flagships" to ammonia to appease ESG investors.