Ports of Los Angeles and Nagoya to develop green shipping corridor

The US West Coast Port of Los Angeles and Japan’s Nagoya have signed another agreement on top of their 2020 deal to expand collaboration on sustainability and operational efficiency initiatives.

PHOTO: A container terminal in the Port of Nagoya. Nagoya Port Authority

The initiatives include setting up a green shipping corridor between the two ports to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cargo movement.

Under the new agreement, the ports will also develop and test zero-emission vehicles and equipment to help conduct environmentally feasible terminal operations.

Japanese supplier Toyota Tsusho recently launched biofuel bunkering in Nagoya, supplying vessels operated by Toyofuji Shipping. It intends to scale up in Nagoya and conduct similar trials in other Japanese ports.

Biofuels are also available for bunkering in Los Angeles, which has been developing two green shipping corridors with Shanghai, and with Long Beach and Singapore.

By Debarati Bhattacharjee

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