Cargo Business Newswire

Friday, March 21, 2014

K-Line orders first ship engine that will cut nitrogen oxide

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Japan's third largest shipping line by revenue, has ordered a vessel fitted with an engine designed to decrease nitrogen oxide emissions to meet stricter shipping regulations, according to inside sources.

The shipping company also plans to install a scrubber in the vessel to remove sulfur oxides from exhaust gases, which will meet stricter regulations from the International Maritime Organization, the United Nations' shipping division, that go into effect in 2015.

K-Line will put an engine being developed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in a car carrier to be completed in January 2016, the sources, who asked not to be named before an official announcement. Kawasaki Heavy said it has developed a ship engine that will reduce nitrogen oxide emissions to meeting new IMO standards.

The container carrier said in September it was ordering four new vessels to be completed in the fiscal year ending March 2016. The new engine will be fitted on one of those four ships, the sources said.

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