Yang Ming selects AMP from Cavotec

AMP, or ‘cold ironing’, involves vessels turning off their engines while in port, and connecting to shore-side electricity, thus helping to reduce pollution in port areas and surrounding communities. Yang Ming will install the systems on four 6600 TEU container vessels to be built at the Kaohsiung shipyard in Taiwan. The ships are set for completion in 2010 and 2011, with delivery of the AMP units expected to run from the end of 2009, until the beginning of 2011. Once in service, these ships will be able to switch off their engines and plug into the local electricity grid at ports equipped to supply AMP, such as the Port of Los Angeles, and the Port of Long Beach, where a growing number of vessels use shore-side electricity.

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