​June 16, 2014

OOCL honored with “Environmental Achievement Awards”  for Green Initiatives

In recognition of shipping lines that have contributed to improving the port community’s environment at Long Beach, California, OOCL was honored to receive the newly introduced “Environmental Achievement Awards” from the Port of Long Beach (POLB) for our commitment to emissions reduction through participation and support of the POLB’s “Green Flag Incentive” and “Green Ship Incentive” programs.

Each year, the POLB celebrates with qualifying shipping lines that are taking the leadership and setting good examples in the industry to cruise into the port at Long Beach by reducing speeds and deploying today’s greenest ships that would burn less fuel, hence lowering emissions.

According to the POLB, the two incentive programs have contributed to the steady decline of pollution in the port community where nitrogen oxides fell 54 percent, diesel exhaust dropped 81 percent, and sulfur oxides down 88 percent since 2005.

OOCL has been supporting the Green Flag Incentive Program since its inception, and to this day our vessels have been fully compliant by reducing vessel speeds within the stipulated speed reduction zones.  As a proud qualifying shipping line for the Green Incentive Program, all of OOCL’s newly built vessels since the year 2000 have been installed with environmental friendly NOx-controlled propulsive engines and adopted advanced slide fuel injection valves to help reduce our fleet’s NOx emission level by 30%. 

OOCL was honored to have received the award, among six other shipping lines that have also contributed to both incentive programs, on May 14, 2014.  The awardees were joined by the Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, Congressman Alan Lowenthal, representatives from the POLB Acting Executive Director Al Moro and Deputy Acting Executive Director Dr. Noel Hacegaba, as well as POLB Harbor Commissioners Doug Drummond and Susan Wise at the celebration.


    
Representative of OOCL (USA) Inc., Mr. Shiaw Lee (L-3), received the award from Long Beach Mayor, Bob Foster (R-2) ; Congressman, Alan Lowenthal (R-4); as well as representatives from the POLB Acting Executive Director, Al Moro (L-1), Deputy Acting Executive Director, Dr. Noel Hacegaba (R-1); and POLB Harbor Commissioners Doug Drummond (L-5) and Susan Wise (R-3)