Foss is committed to reducing its carbon and emissions footprints and adhering to the principles of sustainability and safety in its operations. Foss has taken the lead in our industry to aggressively pursue opportunities to reduce emissions and work our environmental values into all of our strategies. Examples of our endeavors include:

• Foss built the world’s first low emissions hybrid tugboat.
• We switched our entire fleet to ultra-low sulfur diesel including those vessels not located in California.
• We use cold ironing at all of our home docks and shipyard.
• All Foss petroleum barges are double hulled.
• Foss was the first maritime operating company accepted into EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership.
• We were honored by the Chamber of Shipping of America which recognized 59 of our vessels for outstanding environmental records in 2007.
• In 2007, Foss converted six boats with uncertified engines to Tier 1 engines.
• In 2008 we replaced five barges with uncertified engines with five new barges with certified non-road Tier 3 engines and vapor recovery systems.
• Our harbor tugs use a vacuum truck service for their oily waste removal instead of an oily water separator. We are using this option in order to minimize our waste stream.
• We completed an energy audit on our vessels and are developing an energy management plan to reduce fuel and energy consumption.

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