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Waste Disposal and Ship Demolition
Waste Disposal and Ship Demolition
As a leading global shipping company, Yang Ming places high priority on fleet renewal and the associated increase in waste resulting from business growth, while simultaneously developing more efficient and energy-saving vessels and expanding service routes. The Company strictly controls the generation of various types of waste during operations and the disposal processes for decommissioned vessels through comprehensive policy formulation and systematic classification, treatment, and recording, ensuring continuous improvement in resource use efficiency and environmental management performance.
Onshore Waste Management Measures
- Promote waste reduction and resource recycling measures to employees quarterly.
- Implement waste sorting and recycling to ensure proper waste treatment and improve recycling quality.
- Encourage colleagues to bring their own utensils and eco-friendly cups, avoiding single-use utensils.
- Take appropriate portions at lunch to avoid waste and reduce food scraps.
- Implement paper document destruction, recycling, and reuse; paper consumption at the Kaohsiung Building in 2025 decreased by 13.23% compared to the 2024 baseline year, and paper consumption at the Taiwan Operating Department decreased by 15.85% compared to the 2024 baseline year.
- Engage qualified contractors for waste disposal in compliance with local environmental regulations.
- Promote environmental education to enhance employees' environmental and sustainability awareness.
Disposal of Waste from Onshore Locations
Unit：Ton
| Business Locations | Type | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offices | Non-hazardous waste | General waste from business activities (incineration) | 50.72 | 57.25 | 90.18 |
| Domestic waste from employees (incineration) | 20.14 | 18.29 | 33.33 | ||
| Resource recycling Note1 | 19.42 | 18.55 | 26.51 | ||
| Total | 90.28 | 94.09 | 150.03 | ||
| Container yard | Non-hazardous waste | Business waste (incineration) | 44.14 | 48.71 | 200.48 |
| Resource recycling Note2 | 4.06 | 2.89 | - | ||
| Hazardous waste | Waste motor oil (recycled and reused) | 1.08 | 1.71 | 2.00 | |
| Total | 49.28 | 53.31 | 202.48 | ||
Note2：Starting from 2024, container yards classify non-hazardous waste into business waste and resource recycling items.
Vessel Waste Management Measures
- Onboard waste classification collection and onboard waste treatment comply with MARPOL Annex V and local environmental regulations. Yang Ming's fleet has established garbage management plans regulating treatment of hazardous waste and solid waste generated onboard, including 5 major procedures: collection, classification, treatment, storage, and recording.
- Food waste is properly treated according to convention and port state legal requirements.
- In addition to waste and hazardous substance reduction, waste batteries/chemicals/waste fluorescent tubes/medical waste are arranged for shore recycling treatment.
- Used paper, empty barrels, empty boxes, and wooden boards are collected for reuse.
- Ships are equipped with stainless steel garbage bins marked with different colors for waste classification, with additional markings for combustible/non-combustible and recyclable/non-recyclable.
Disposal of Waste from Ships at Sea
Unit：Ton
| Business Locations | Type | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ships | Non-hazardous waste | Domestic waste from employees (incineration) Note 1 | 102.68 | 89.78 | 55.88 |
| Hazardous waste | Sludge Note 2 | 28,132.79 | 28,672.05 | 19,540.70 | |
| Medical waste | 0 | 0.00 | 0.81 | ||
| Total | 28,235.47 | 28,761.83 | 19,597.39 | ||
*In accordance with international shipping practices, marine waste discharged ashore is recorded by volume. After aggregating the fleet's annual discharge volumes, the figures are converted to weight for disclosure using relevant
coefficients (reference website: Volume-to Weight Conversion Factors, April 2016). The water content in sludge and waste oilwater is high, thus calculated at a density of 1; waste cooking oil is calculated at a density of 0.93.
*Disposal methods comply with Port State regulations, with subsequent removal and treatment performed by qualified local port units. All waste is disposed of off-site.
*Marine vessel waste has been included in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory since 2022.
*Statistical reporting of marine waste has included chartered-in vessels since 2024.
Ship Recycling and Disposal
Yang Ming has established a green ship demolition policy. In handling retired vessels, the Company complies with the 2009 Hong Kong Convention (HKC) regulations and protects construction worker health, human rights, and marine environment through the requirements in the table below. The Company signed to join the Ship Recycling Transparency Initiative (SRTI) in 2022, updating ship recycling measures and conditions annually on the SRTI website.
The Company did not carry out any ship demolition activities in 2025.
Green Ship Recycling Management Measures
- Preparation of Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM)
- Onboard Inspections and Sampling
- Selection of Qualified Ship Recycling Facilities
- Follow-up on Ship Recycling Progress
For responding to the "2009 Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships" and "EU Ship Recycling Regulation," our owned vessels in 2024 100% have obtained IHM certification.
Buyers Required to Select ISO Certified Green Ship Recyclers
