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Last call for heavy polluting trucks

2014-08-27 10:21 Shanghai Daily Web Editor: Yao Lan
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Road haulage companies will from October 1 be prohibited from using trucks that fail to meet Shanghai's strict vehicle emission standards, traffic authorities said yesterday.

The new ruling is seen as a move to speed up the complete elimination of so-called yellow label vehicles, which are responsible for much of the air pollution generated by traffic.

From October, road transport certificates will no longer be granted to locally registered yellow label vehicles, while those from outside the city will not be able to operate within Shanghai, said Liu Bin, head of road transport at the traffic authority.

Once a vehicle has a yellow label it cannot pass its annual inspection, Liu said, adding that any company found using such vehicles after October 1 will be punished.

Ridding the city of heavy-polluting vehicles is a priority for the Shanghai government in its bid to improve air quality, said Ye Xing, head of the authority's technology and information division, adding that yellow label vehicles have been banned from operating inside the Outer Ring Road since July 1.

"About 25 percent of the PM2.5 pollutants in the air comes from motor vehicles, and yellow labels are the worst offenders," he said.

Such vehicles, so named for the color of the sticker issued to them by the traffic authority, include gasoline models that fail to meet the National I emissions standard and diesel ones that fail to meet the National III emission standard.

Vehicles that meet the standards are given green labels.

Most yellow label vehicles are buses and trucks, and all such public buses will be scrapped before the end of the year, Ye said.

Since 2011, almost 180,000 yellow label vehicles have been scrapped, but about 120,000 are still in operation, he said.

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