CSCMP Edge 2023: Pasha Hawaii Wins Supply Chain Sustainability Award, Lynn Fritz Wins Hall of Fame Award
At the CSCMP Edge Conference, held this week in Orlando, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) announced that Pasha Hawaii has won its 2023 Supply Chain Sustainability Award .
The award honors an individual or team who exemplifies significant, positive and genuine impact in advancing environmental, social and/or economic sustainability in the supply chain.
Supply Chain Sustainability Award
On August 17, 2022, Pasha Hawaii entered into service the first of two new ‘Ohana Class container ships to operate on natural gas. Called MV George III, this 774-foot Jones Act vessel became the first Liquified Natural Gas (“LNG”) powered container ship to serve the Hawaii/Mainland trade lane. One year later, on July 12, 2023, Pasha Hawaii welcomed its second ‘Ohana Class natural gas-powered container ship to its fleet called MV Janet Marie.
In 2014, Pasha Hawaii’s executive leadership was challenged by the late George Pasha, III to assemble a team and construct a commercially viable vessel that would represent the environmental stewardship of the company. Led by current President and CEO George Pasha, IV and Senior Vice President, Fleet Operations Edward Washburn, Pasha signed a contract with Texas-based AmFELS for the vessel’s construction. Construction and design began in the fall 2018.
Operating on LNG from day one, George III and Janet Marie are the most environmentally friendly and energy-efficient container vessels to service the California/Hawaii trade lane. In addition to designing and building one of the world’s cleanest and most technologically advanced container vessels, Pasha Hawaii, in a joint venture with West Coast Clean Fuels, also designed and built LNG fueling infrastructure to serve Long Beach, California for the ships since none existed in California or Hawaii.
The company’s vision was to build a ship, specifically designed and optimized for the California/Hawaii trade using a sustainable local fuel source. LNG was selected as the primary fuel as it is locally sourced in California, which minimizes transportation carbon footprint, and it is the most environmentally friendly sustainable fuel available for high horsepower applications required for ocean-going container vessels. Using LNG as the fuel source for the ‘Ohana Class vessels results in a reduction of SOx emissions by 99.9%, NOx emissions by 90%, Particulate Matter by 99%, and CO2 by 25%.
Once the Pasha Hawaii team selected LNG as the primary fuel source, they committed to designing and building the fueling infrastructure for these ‘Ohana Class vessels as there were no means to bunker or fuel these ships with LNG in California or Hawaii. The design of this fueling process truly encompasses the minimization of environmental impact from “Well to Wake”. The LNG is locally sourced, transported from the source via LNG powered trucks to the terminal, and then pumped into the vessel’s tanks using Pasha’s custom-designed LNG pump skid. This fueling process and supporting infrastructure provides the ability to not only service the company’s ‘Ohana Class vessels but also for future LNG-powered vessels for Pasha Hawaii and other ship owners.
In addition to using LNG as the most environmentally friendly fuel source, the ‘Ohana Class vessels’ hull form, propeller, and rudder were designed from scratch and may be the most efficient hull form in commercial trade today. This design went through numerous computer simulations and hull/propeller/rudder form testing with continual improvements until the optimal design was found. This, along with state-of-the-art equipment, from bridge navigation gear to emission reduction technologies throughout the vessel with the focus on energy efficiency and emission reductions, the ‘Ohana Class vessel has far exceeded the upcoming 2030 IMO emission regulations.
Hall of Fame Award
CSCMP also named Lynn Fritz, chairman and CEO of Fritz Companies, as the 2023 Supply Chain Hall of Fame Inductee. The CSCMP Hall of Fame was first initiated in 2016 to recognize individuals for having made outstanding contributions to the supply chain discipline and served as role models to supply chain students, young professionals, budding entrepreneurs and career supply chain professionals.
A visionary in the global logistics industry, Lynn helped develop and operationalize the concepts of third-party logistics and supply chain services during his 30-year career as Chairman and CEO of Fritz Companies, Inc., which enabled this small San Francisco customs brokerage company to expand to 120 countries and 11,000 employees. The company went public in 1992 and achieved Fortune 1000 status in 1997. His enduring contribution redefined a fragmented and limited services industry through the use of technology.
Upon UPS’s acquisition of Fritz Companies in 2001, Fritz shifted professional gears, dedicating the Fritz Institute to the development and deployment of logistics expertise to the global Humanitarian Sector. He partnered with his wife, Dr. Anisya Thomas, and they resolved to advocate for humanitarian logisticians, bringing academic expertise and private sector resources and best practices to their endeavors. He invested significant financial resources and devoted a majority of his time partnering with a broad array of institutions and individuals in the creation of a field now recognized as humanitarian logistics. The software developed by Fritz Institute, used to track the delivery of necessary relief items, is utilized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Oxfam, Save the Children U.K. and World Vision. The Institute’s certified training programs and curriculum is the lynchpin of humanitarian logistics operational trading and benefits hundreds of relief logisticians and organizations, while Fritz Institute standards are being utilized in over 25 countries in Africa.
Once the Fritz Institute was successfully underway, Fritz founded LynnCo Supply Chain Solutions, headquartered in Oklahoma, a compact technology driven new age domestic forwarding company.
