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Background
Information
In
December 2007, the Board approved a regulation to reduce
emissions from diesel auxiliary
engines on
container ships, passenger ships, and refrigerated-cargo ships while
berthing at a California Port. The
regulation
defines a California Port as the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach,
Oakland, San Diego, San Francisco, and Hueneme. The regulation
provides vessel fleet operators visiting these ports two
options to reduce at-berth emissions from
auxilary engines: 1) turn off auxiliary engines for
most of a
vessel's stay in port and connect the vessel to some other
source of
power, most likely grid-based shore power; or 2) use
alternative
control technique(s) that achieve equivalent emission
reductions.
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