Monday 8 September 08 - 08:34
 

Container Handling: Terminal Tractors

Weighing the benefits

The port of Los Angeles has calculated the potential annual environmental benefits it can achieve from the 1.2m drayage trips its tractors make every year between the port and its nearby Intermodal Container Transfer Facility.

21.8 tonnes

– the amount of diesel particulate emissions eliminated

168.5 tonnes

– the amount of carbon monoxide emissions eliminated

427.7 tonnes

– the amount of localised NOx emissions eliminated

34,987.6 tonnes

– the amount of carbon dioxide emissions eliminated

Port Security 1/2 October.