川重工場に立ち入り調査　エンジン燃費データ改ざん―国交省

　川崎重工業が船舶向けエンジンの燃費データを改ざんしていた問題で、国土交通省は２２日、海洋汚染防止法に基づき、同社の神戸工場（神戸市）を立ち入り調査した。不正の詳しい経緯を調べる。
　同日午前９時４０分ごろ、国交省の職員３人が神戸工場に入った。２３日も引き続き調査する。
　国交省や川崎重工によると、同社が製造した窒素酸化物（ＮＯｘ）規制対象のエンジン６７４台のうちほぼすべての６７３台で不正が発覚。２０００年以降に起工した船舶に搭載されたエンジンで、試運転の際、燃費を顧客の仕様に基づく許容値に収めるなどの目的で、データを書き換えていたという。（2024/08/22-10:45）

Japan's transport ministry conducted an on-site inspection Thursday of a Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. plant in the western Japan city of Kobe over ship engine data tampering by the company.
   Three ministry officials entered the plant around 9:40 a.m. The raid, based on the marine pollution prevention law, will continue Friday.
   The major Japanese heavy machinery maker said Wednesday that fuel economy data was found to have been falsified during test operations for 673 of the 674 ship engines for which manufacturing began in January 2000 and later.
   The irregularities were discovered as Kawasaki Heavy checked the engines, subject to nitrogen oxide emission regulations, following the ministry's request that covered not only the company but also many other industry peers.
   Kawasaki Heavy inappropriately tweaked testing equipment to keep emissions data within permissible ranges of customer specifications and reduce the variance of data.