Environmental Management Policy 

Yang Ming upholds the core value of achieving environmental sustainability through energy saving and emissions reduction. We were the first ISM-certified carrier in Taiwan in 1996 and implemented the ISO 14001 environmental management systems in 2004. Through a series of environmental protection measures, the Company has been dedicated to protecting marine ecology, reducing carbon emissions, and air pollution in an effort to ensure a better environment for future generations. By fleet renewal deploying new eco-friendly vessels, optimizing ship sailing attitudes, adjusting cargo ballasting and ensuring energy-efficient draft operation based on stowage planning practices, working with WNI and other intelligent technologies to enhance operational efficiency through monitoring by the Smart Ship Center, reinforcing fleet carbon reduction management, monitoring the energy consumption performance of vessels, refining the existing vessels for better energy efficiency, the carbon intensity of the Company’s operating vessels in 2022 was 40.21 g/teu-km, reduced by up to 59.54% compared to 2008, exceeding the target of the IMO. The fleet not also uses shore power to reduce air pollution, but also conducts wastewater discharge control and lowers ship speed to maintain local marine ecology. Furthermore, the Company supports the Environmental Protection Administration’s Green Office measures, and the offices and the Keelung (Yang Ming) Container Yard adopt energy saving and carbon reduction measures to enhance the efficiency of energy utilization and implement local procurement, green procurement, and source reduction in order to lower energy use and reduce resource waste.

To implement specific commitments and strategies to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, the Company conducted a GHG inventory in 2021 which as the base year for the Company’s total carbon emissions and deployed LNG dual-fuel container ships. In 2022, Yang Ming became a founder member of the Silk Alliance and joined the Getting to Zero Coalition and the Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel to work with the companies in the shipping industry chain in developing fuel transformation and sustainable decarbonization strategies in the hope of serving as a sustainability leader in the global shipping industry. 

Yang Ming’s Environmental Protection Policy, please find Certifications
 

Use of Shore Power to Reduce the Impact of Vessels on the Environment

Yang Ming’s American investee company West Basin Container Terminal (WBCT) has developed and managed 16 alternative maritime power (AMP) systems that not only comply with federal and local laws and regulations, but also meet the specifications of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), improving the air quality in harbor areas. The Company’s vessels equipped with shore power equipment actively cooperate with ports such as the Port of Los Angeles, Port of Long Beach, and Port of Oakland in initiating shore power connections. With these AMP systems, container ships can use on-shore power when calling at the ports, reducing the air pollution produced by generators. 

Moreover, the Company’s Kao Ming Container Terminal Corp. is an eco-friendly container terminal using green energy and equipped with 6 AMP systems for use by container ships when calling at the port. In addition, Kao Ming actively cooperates with the Environmental Protection Administration in shore power promotion to facilitate the development of environmental protection businesses in Taiwan. 
 

Yang Ming’s Operating Vessels Installed with AMP Systems

 

	Number
Own ships	19
Chartered ships	4 chartered ships + 34 chartered ships with AMP container modules

 

Paths and Strategies Towards Carbon Reduction

Note 1: The Energy Conservation Team was founded in 2009 and was renamed Team of Fuel Efficiency Management in 2019. 
Note 2: 2021 was set as the fixed base year. However, as Categories 3-5 emission sources were added according to the identification results for material emission sources, 
the base year needed to be adjusted. The base year for Categories 1 and 2 remained 2021, while the base year for Categories 3-5 was set as 2022. 
Note 3: GHG inventory data for 2021: Category 1+2: 4,000,525.4688 (tons CO2e); Category 3-5: 120,888.4453 (tons CO2e). 
Note 4: GHG inventory data for 2022: Category 1+2: 4,045,499.9538 (tons CO2e); Category 3-5: 648,041.4959 (tons CO2e).