In order to save energy, the Company started to adjust the working hours of the air conditioners installed in the office building. Firstly, the operation time of the air conditioners were shortened: the air conditioners were set to commence operation at 7:30 am, one hour later than the original 6:30 am and the off-time was set 5 pm, one hour earlier than the original 6 pm. Secondly, the operation time of the air conditioners on Saturdays and Sundays were adjusted: all day operation was altered that Saturdays, off at 1pm and Sundays, off all day. Any operation or service-off under unusual circumstances shall be approved by the administrative department of the General Manager Office. Thirdly, the room temperature is increased: increased from 24℃ to 26℃, which greatly reduces the energy consumption. Compared with the same period in 2004, the saved air conditioner applied gas was 28860M3, decreased by 16.33%
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Office-applied paper and electricity consume the natural energy directly. By all the effective means, the Company tries to reduce the consumption of office-applied paper and electricity. In order to send the shipping documents such as manifests and cargo bills smoothly and rapidly, the mentioned documents shall be sent to shipping agency located at the unloading ports prior to the arrival of the vessels. EDI System was adopted in 1996, which, unlike mailed documents, can be scanned and sent in the form of emails, saving paper and accelerating the information exchange. Ever since 2003, IRIS-2 container service operation system has been adopted into the container shipping service, from consultation, entrustment and shipment to every arrival operation, conveying information and bills and greatly reducing the use of paper during the operation course. Since the 4th quarter of 2005, the Company has advocated the saving view of Self-consciousness and Focus on Trifle Things. All the staff is required to duplicate the document on both sides of paper and to reduce the waste of paper by diminishing duplication mistakes. Additionally, documents are required to be saved and conveyed in the electronic form to reduce the paper consumption. In the offices, it is required by the Company not to open the windows when the air conditioners are turned on, not to turn on the lights when the lighting is good and to turn the lights, computers and air conditioners off after the working hours. The lighting of the offices is control in centralization by the automatic control system of the building. Besides the facts that the administrative department of the General Manager Office coordinates with the property management company to shorten the occupied time of the lights in the offices and the escalators and that the sight-seeing lifts are turned on alternatively, the signs with “Turn off the lights conveniently” written on have been stuck beside all the switches. Compared with the same period of 2004, the electricity consumption of the building decreased by 113730KW.H, 11.30% by taking the mentioned measures.