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CMA CGM Adopts Modular Cold-Ironing Solution
To comply with new California rules calling for cold ironing, container line CMA CGM says it is adopting a "mobile container solution" that it says will give it greater flexibility in allowing ships to use shore power.
Six ships that operate on transpacific routes will use the mobile units, which can be transferred from one vessel to another.
The company said that means if a ship were to change lines, the modular unit could be moved to a different ship.
The first of the devices as installed on the CMA CGM Libra, a 11,400 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) ship operating on the Pearl River service.
The Libra successfully connected to shore power on January 19 at the Port of Long Beach's Pier J.
The new California rules requiring many ships to use shore power while at berth officially went into effect January 1, but state regulators have given ship operators some leeway in complying with the requirements for a six-month transitional period.
