Nike To Use LNG For Port-Related Trucking Needs

October 30, 2007

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Nike and its affiliate Converse are switching a portion of their Los Angeles area harbor drayage fleet from diesel to new Liquefied Natural Gas fueled vehicles. The “green fleet” announcement was made in conjunction with news that Nike has joined the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, a group advocating for policies and public/private partnerships that encourage the use of cleaner truck technologies in port communities.

Nike estimates the new LNG trucks will emit 18 percent less CO2, 88 percent less NOx and 96 percent less particulate matter per mile when compared to their diesel counterparts. Nike has teamed up with Green Fleet, a division of Southern Counties Express, a local trucking firm, to meet approximately 50 percent of its port-related trucking needs in the Los Angeles/Long Beach area. Southern Counties Express will be taking delivery on more than 70 new LNG-fueled trucks in the next two months. The trucks were purchased in part with financial aid from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the Air Quality Management District.

“Nike and our affiliate companies are committed to a 30 percent absolute CO2 reduction for inbound logistics by 2020,” said John Isbell, Nike’s Director of Corporate Logistics Services. “To do so will take an accumulation of many efforts just like this one in which we can take advantage of an environmentally preferred alternative.”

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Thank you for making this decision! As a long time supporter of LNG usage for fleet fuels and as a low cost, non emmission fuel, I would like to see the people in the U.S. educated about the actual science of how LNG is made, is much safer than gasoline, and after the heavy tax imposed by the federal governemt in the 1980’s, is an affordable renewable fuel that even poor countries can afford.

Laura Adkins | October 31st, 2007