APM Terminals Elizabeth at the Port of New York\/New Jersey expects to reduce CO2 emissions by 45% in 2021 translating into an estimated emissions reduction of 8000 metric tonnes of CO2 in 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur decision to pursue green sourced energy reflects our overall long-term company plans to decarbonise our terminal operations,\u201d said Jon Poelma, managing director of APM Terminals Elizabeth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re progressing on that goal through a multi-year program that aligns with our customers who are also decarbonising their logistics chains and looking to work with like-minded companies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Decarbonisation plan<\/strong><\/p>\n APM Terminals Elizabeth embarked on its decarbonising plan in 2016 as part of a multi-year effort to reduce energy consumption through improved efficiency, equipment upgrades and electrification.<\/p>\n The terminal has also introduced a new gate complex designed to improve the trucker experience, reduce truck idling and improve turn times.<\/p>\n Average turnaround time reductions of 11 minutes have already been seen, representing a reduction of 3kg CO2\/teu, benefiting the trucker community and wider New Jersey port area.<\/p>\n Other actions underway to reduce emissions include improving operational efficiencies and traffic management on the terminal.<\/p>\n APM Terminals Elizabeth operates one of the largest container terminals at the PANYNJ, investing US$200 million in upgrading the facility to enhance productivity and expand capacity for future growth as part of a five-year modernisation programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 45% reduction in emissions is in reach of one American terminal which has started to use green renewables including wind and solar power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11588,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11586\/revisions\/11588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11586"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}