That is according to Nicklas Vedin, product manager for Cavotec\u2019s vacuum mooring technology, MoorMaster, who said that the industry is realising that reducing environmental impact is profitable.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust last year several Baltic ports procured MoorMaster systems primarily to save time when berthing a ship thereby enabling them to cruise slower between port calls which saves fuel and reduces the environmental impact, said Mr Vedin.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn addition, the port itself achieves productivity improvements and improved workplace safety as slow and dangerous manual work is replaced by automation. An example of what we at Cavotec call Profitable Sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n
Short sea crucial<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Vedin said thatwhile a variety of fuel alternatives continue to be considered as the most viable way to power ocean-going vessels with zero-emissions \u2013 including ammonia, hydrogen, methanol, and ethanol \u2013 no clear solution has yet emerged.<\/p>\n However, significant progress has been made with smaller vessels serving shorter routes.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is where we\u2019ve seen progress running ahead of the industry. For example, in Norway, as part of its pledge to get the country carbon neutral by 2030, the government is backing the introduction of electrically powered ferries on the large number of short passenger and vehicle crossings there.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThe industry is clearly charting a path towards zero emissions and it already has various tools at its disposal to achieve that. Considerable progress has been made \u2013 but there\u2019s still a lot to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sustainable technologies including shore power and vacuum mooring are benefitting from increased uptake as the industry charts a course towards zero emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}