As I stated before, the current low sulfur fuel used in local US and EU waters, or Emission Control Area's(ECA) as they are called, effects a much smaller amount of marine fuel demand than the new 2020 regulation will.
IMO 2020:
What’s next?Shell wrote:
The transition to 0.5%S will cause more changes to global marine industry than the switch to the 0.1%S fuel in the ECAs. The impact of this transition represents approximately 75% of global marine fuel demand when compared to the demand of ECA.
This article from BP has a better map of current ECA's.
MARPOL 2020 and beyond
