Press release: K-Line announces shift to Low Sulfur Fuel in the Pacific Northwest

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (”K” Line), one of the world’s largest ocean transportation companies and an industry leader in environmental stewardship, announced that all container vessels in “K” Line’s Pacific Northwest service, calling at Tacoma, WA and Vancouver, B.C. will use low sulfur fuel in auxiliary machinery while the vessels are docked at Pacific Northwest ports. ([1] Full Story)
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Note by folc.ca: It goes without saying that, when in motion, those ships are using highly polluting bunker fuel that contains extremely high levels (20,000 ppm and more) of sulphur. See next article for more on that. The photo (above) and [2] the related story show that K-Lines’ boast, of being “an industry leader in environmental stewardship” is the motivating force for using lower-sulphur fuel in auxiliary engines when in or in the vicinity of ports in the Pacific Northwest, is perhaps justified only when it is being forced through legislation to become environmentally clean.

The California legislation that forces K-Lines to become “an industry leader in environmental stewardship” in the Pacific Northwest came into effect in January 2007.