For Hutchison Ports Port of Felixstowe, the call meant the deployment of the first of its 150 electric trucks on order to service the ship, demonstrating how zero-emission journeys through the port are possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a truly historic event. It is essential that the industry moves to decarbonise shipping and this first call by an alternatively fuelled vessel complements Hutchison Ports\u2019 commitment to achieve Net Zero for our UK operations by 2035,\u201d said Clemence Cheng, executive director, Hutchison Ports and CEO, Port of Felixstowe.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll our electricity already comes from certified renewable sources and we are investing heavily in new electric trucks and yard cranes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Game-changing<\/strong><\/p>\n Maersk said that the Laura Maersk is an important proof that the decarbonisation of supply chains is feasible – a game changer in a hard to abate industry.<\/p>\n \u201cCombining low emission landside transport solutions with the soon to be delivered larger vessels running on green methanol will allow us to start offering green end to end solutions for our customers. This will be the first of many initiatives to get us to net zero,\u201d said Gary Jeffreys, Maersk\u2019s area managing director, UK & Ireland.<\/p>\n The Rt Hon Dr Therese Coffey MP, UK Secretary of State for the Environment, was there to witness the port call.<\/p>\n \u201cThe UK Government has been a leader in introducing mandatory targets to achieve Net Zero by 2050,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201dShipping is one of the more challenging sectors to decarbonise and I am pleased to see Maersk Line taking a lead in the adoption of green fuels.\u201d<\/p>\n The 2,100 teu vessel will operate on Maersk\u2019s Baltic shipping route between Northern Europe and the Bay of Bothnia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The maiden voyage of the Laura Maersk, the first container ship in the world to complete a voyage powered by green methanol, is helping decarbonise each port it calls at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40,879,136,658,23,134,481],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-green-methanol","tag-hutchison-ports","tag-maersk","tag-port-equipment","tag-port-of-felixstowe","tag-supply-chains"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749","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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}