据世界天然气网站8月26日消息 日本航运巨头K-Line通过向日本银行提供气候过渡贷款，为其首艘液化天然气动力汽车运输船安排了经营租赁。
所涉及的银行是瑞穗银行（MHBK）和住友三井信托银行（SMTB）。
该贷款用于购买名为“Century Highway Green”的液化天然气动力汽车运输船，为K Line 2050环境愿景的一部分。该计划的目标是将二氧化碳排放效率比2008年提高50%。
此外，该贷款是日本第一笔气候转型融资。
这艘总吨位为73800吨的船由Tadotsu造船厂建造，其液化天然气燃料箱容量为2439立方米。船舶使用双燃料主发动机和辅助发动机，能够采用液化天然气或船用柴油。
Century Highway Green项目的目标是提高45%的能源效率。此外，还将硫氧化物减少约100%，氮氧化物减少约80-90%。
船舶的GHG（CO2）排放量将每年向外界披露。
吴恒磊 编译自 世界天然气
原文如下：
K-Line secures green loan for LNG-powered car carrier
Japanese shipping major K Line has arranged an operating lease for its first LNG-powered car carrier through a climate transition loan with Japanese banks.
The banks in question are Mizuho Bank (MHBK) and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (SMTB).
This loan, applied to purchase the LNG-powered car carrier named Century Highway Green, is a part of Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha’s (K Line) Environmental Vision 2050. The initiative has the goal of improving CO2 emission efficiency by 50 per cent compared to 2008.
Also, the loan is the very first climate transition finance in Japan.
Built by Tadotsu Shipyard, the 73,800 gross tonnage ship features an LNG fuel tank capacity of 2,439 cubic metres. The vessel uses a dual-fuel main engine and auxiliary engines capable of operating align="justify"> Century Highway Green aims at 45 per cent more energy efficiency. Also, it is to reduce sulfur oxides by about 100 per cent, nitrogen oxides by about 80 to 90 per cent.
GHG (CO2) emissions from the vessel will be disclosed annually to the lenders.