Clean Air Action Plan Air Quality Awards 2013
Clean Air Action Plan Air Quality Awards 2013
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Read moreAn eco-friendly NYK-owned coal carrier,Soyo, has been selected as the 2012 "Ship of the Year" by the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (JASNAOE)Soyo was honored for its innovative air-lubrication system and its proven impact on CO2 reduction. This new air-lubrication system reduces CO2 emissions by taking some of the main engine scavenging air (combustion air) from the main engine's turbocharger and leading it to the vessel's bottom to reduce the frictional resistance between the vessel's bottom and the seawater.A system featuring this scavenging air bypass is expected to be effective in reducing CO2 on large vessels having deep drafts.Yamatai andYamato have similar air-lubrication systems, and were actually the world's first vessels involved in overseas transport to have such a system permanently installed. The NYK Group is currently looking to equip car carriers with this eco-friendly system.The system was jointly developed by NYK, Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., and the Monohakobi Technology Institute, an NYK Group company, in cooperation with the National Maritime Research Institute. System development was subsidized through Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's "Support for Technology Development from Marine Vessels for Curtailing CO2" project, among others.*The NYK Group will continue to encourage initiatives that ...
Read moreThe 2013 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea will be awarded to two rescue swimmers from the United States of America, for saving the lives of 14 crew members from the tall ship HMS Bounty, and, posthumously, to a seafarer from China who died trying to save the life of a ferry passeng
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