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RCCL’s 28 ships outfitted with scrub- just with the vendor, but also include throughout the commercial maritime bers. In choosing scrubbers, Aasen said the end user, the experienced engineer, landscape, as vessel owners increas- that quality of material is a critical con- to combine ‘experienced brains with the ingly receive and develop reliable tools sideration to avoid repairing or replac- new artificial intelligence ’ to build out to manage more vessel functions from ing components earlier than anticipated. these new solutions.” shore. Captains, who are professionally “We paid a premium for our scrub- bers, because we wanted a hybrid – closed loop and open loop – that comes with a neutralizing agent,” said Dahl- gren. “Even with all the tests showing

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