The NYK Maritime Museum and NYK Hikawamaru Received ISO14001 Certificate
March 31, 2015
The NYK Maritime Museum* and NYK Hikawamaru** operated by NYK received ISO14001 Certificate as Japan’s first company-run museum from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Limited (LRQA), the third-party certification authority.
The authentication confirms that the environmental management program has been effectively operated, these museums have properly disposed of environmental influencing substances such as scrap wood, and appropriate emergency measures have been taken as facilities that invite a large number of visitors by conducting evacuation drills while assuming risks including fire, earthquake, and tsunami.
NYK Group has obtained ISO14001 environmental certification for the offices and NYK-operated vessels around the world under its environmental policy and has been implementing environmental activities by appointing a Chief of Environmental Management and NYK’s Safety and Environmental Management Committee in each of the regions.
NYK, as a good corporate citizen, will continue to take an active role in social issues, including conservation of the environment, to contribute to the achievement of a sustainable global society.
From left: Mr.Toshihiko Shirabe,
Area Operating Manager North East Asia of LRQA
Center: Norio Kanaya,captain of NYK HIKAWA MARU
Right: Ms.Estelle
Clark,Group Safety and Business Assurance Director of LRQA
* The NYK Maritime Museum:
The Museum was established as a historic resource center of NYK mainly to disseminate the concept of maritime affairs in 1993. It was renamed the NYK Maritime Museum and moved to the current building in 2003.
** NYK Hikawamaru:
NYK Hikawamaru was completed as a passenger and cargo ship for the Seattle sea route in 1930. It served as a navel hospital ship during World War II, and as a vessel for demobilized soldiers and a domestic liner after the war. Then, it returned to the Seattle sea route in 1951. Since her retirement in 1960, the vessel has been moored at Yamashita Park. It was designated a tangible cultural property by Yokohama city in 2003 and refurbished and reopened as NYK Hikawamaru in 2008.
Website: https://www.nyk.com/rekishi/e/
Reference: For details of NYK’s ISO14001 environmental certification
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