{"id":2471,"date":"2022-07-11T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2022\/07\/11\/future-fuel-focus\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:57:16","slug":"future-fuel-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/future-fuel-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Future fuel focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The port operator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abports.co.uk\/annual-review-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Annual Review 2022<\/a> demonstrates how ABP wants to create more resilient, sustainable supply chains and embrace innovative new equipment and technology to enable trade and economic growth across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur port operations continue to lead the industry thanks to our people and our continuous investments, such as upgrading our Humber container terminals, building new warehouses for our customers and acquiring new cranes and port equipment, powered by biofuel, electricity and a significant amount of solar power,\u201d said&nbsp;Henrik L. Pedersen, CEO, ABP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2021, we invested over \u00a3150 million in our ports, as we continue to embrace technological advances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Industry firsts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last year saw several industry firsts in the field of technology and sustainability, including the arrival of two fully \u2018mains powered\u2019 electric cranes at Ipswich and the world\u2019s largest hydraulic crane at Immingham.<\/p>\n<p>The operator also launched the first private 5G network of any UK mainland port and became the first to install commercial shore power connectivity in the UK at the Port of Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>To date, ABP has invested over \u00a360 million across its ports in electric\/hybrid equipment and on-site solar arrays and wind turbines, which has contributed to a reduction of over 35% carbon emissions in its port operations.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of the success of Green Port Hull and Lowestoft Eastern Energy Facility (LEEF), ABP launched its ambitious plans for South Wales in its Future Ports: Wales Vision with Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) at its core in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>ABP\u2019s five ports in South Wales, (Swansea, Port Talbot, Barry, Cardiff, and Newport) will also play a pivotal role in energy generation and the low carbon economy going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABP\u2019s annual review looks at its investment in\u00a0port equipment, powered by alternative and future fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,40,566,27,23,9,71],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","tag-abp","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-associated-british-ports","tag-biofuel","tag-port-equipment","tag-ports","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","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=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}