K Line cuts CO2 emissions target
The company achieved a 13.6% reduction in emissions per mile-tonne in 2015 compared to its 2011 emissions – beating the 10% reduction target it initially hoped to meet in 2019. The company attributed its achievement to the deployment of bigger ships, energy saving technologies including electronically controlled engines and slow steaming.
The company highlighted energy diversification – including LNG-fuelled vessels – as one element of its emissions reductions strategy. It is also introducing an energy management system across its fleet, which will employ data from vessels to enhance operational efficiency and management of operations including ballast navigation and anchorage.
K Line will also continue to retrofit energy-saving technologies to its existing fleet.
A new 25% reduction target (on 2011 emissions) has been set for 2025, with the goal of a 50% reduction by 2050 still in place. The emissions targets were initially set in March last year as part of the company’s ‘Securing Blue Seas for Tomorrow’ environmental action plan to 2050.
One element of K Line’s environmental approach is the Drive Green project, a wide-ranging research project that fed into the recent delivery of a new pure car/truck carrier, Drive Green Highway. Key elements include an innovative, composite NOx and CO2 emissions reduction system, hybrid SOx scrubber, auxiliary engine exhaust gas recovery (EGR), one of the largest solar power arrays at sea, wind resistance reduction design, an energy saving appendage aft, low-friction paint and a raft of other mechanical, electrical and electronic measures.
The Motorship’s recent ship description of the Drive Green Highway can be read here.
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