Clay Maitland, Founding Chairman of the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA), announced that the liner company APL is the recipient of NAMEPA's 2010 Marine Environment Protection Award.' The award will be presented at NAMEPA's Awards Dinner to be held at the Harvard Club in New York following NAMEPA's seminar on Corporate Risk Management, which will focus on the need of the maritime industry to evaluate measures required to retain corporate value in a challenging operating environment.

'We are honored to be the recipients of this year's NAMEPA Marine Environment Protection Award', stated Gene Seroka, President APL Americas.' 'APL works diligently to deploy best practices in our environmental efforts as part of our continuing commitment to operate ships that are environmentally efficient, safe, and dependable.' We serve our customers, our industry and the planet.'

The NAMEPA Marine Environment Protection Award is given in recognition of an individual or organization's efforts on behalf of preserving the marine environment as exemplified by a commitment to a program which has specific objectives set for environmental performance and improvement, and which is innovative and goes beyond minimum environmental compliance. Eligible candidates include members of the commercial maritime industry, government agencies, and individuals.

'APL has demonstrated a strong commitment on behalf of the marine environment, and has been proactive in protecting the health of our seas' stated Mr. Maitland.' 'We are pleased to recognize such an able, and distinguished, partner in working to 'Save our Seas' .'