{"id":3502,"date":"2023-07-06T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/07\/06\/shore-based-power-success-for-tanker\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:05:15","slug":"shore-based-power-success-for-tanker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/europe-greenport\/shore-based-power-success-for-tanker\/","title":{"rendered":"Shore-based power success for tanker"},"content":{"rendered":"

The shore power connection was provided by Cavotec, based on new standards drawn up in co-operation with other ports and operators. The company says it is set to pave the way for tanker berth operators to reduce emissions and help decarbonise maritime and energy supply chains.<\/p>\n

The test sequence, during which no electrical current was supplied to the vessel, was conducted earlier this year with the Tern Fors, a 15,000dwt oil and chemical tanker with a capacity of 16,500 cubic metres.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe connected and checked that the cable fits and carried out all the necessary safety checks,\u201d said Claes M\u00f6ller, chief executive of T\u00e4rntank Ship Management.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing we didn\u2019t do was switch on the power,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Following the successful trial, T\u00e4rntank and the Port of G\u00e4vle now plan to use the system to connect the Tern Fors to electrical current.<\/p>\n

Shore power was first introduced in Sweden \u2013 again supplied by Cavotec \u2013 at a passenger ferry berth at the Port of Gothenburg in the 1980s. In April, Ports of Stockholm announced the successful installation of a next-generation Cavotec shore power connection system at a ferry berth at Kapellsk\u00e4r<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Swedish port of G\u00e4vle has become one of the first in the world to successfully connect a tanker vessel to shore-based power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,34],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","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=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}