The vehicle, which has been supplied by Barton Townley Ltd Barrow, will be used to carry watering gear such as standpipes and hoses around the port to support shipping operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs one of our town\u2019s major employers and largest employment sites, we are keen to play an active role is securing Barrow\u2019s greener future,\u201d said Carl Bevan, ABP Divisional Port manager \u2013 North West.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe introduction of this new electric vehicle to Barrow\u2019s fleet will help towards improvements in local air quality, whilst also reducing the running costs of port operations, helping us to operate more efficiently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Green commitment<\/strong><\/p>\n This latest investment highlights ABP\u2019s commitment towards reducing emissions and follows the purchase of 13 electric Nissan vehicles for the Port of Southampton, which was announced last year.<\/p>\n ABP is driving hard to reduce its environmental emissions this year. Some of the other projects it has been working on include one of the UK\u2019s largest rooftop solar arrays at the Port of Immingham, which will allow the port to become one of the biggest corporate solar power producers in the UK.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Port of Southampton\u2019s Ocean Terminal is undergoing a GB\u00a312m capacity upgrade to accommodate larger ships, including the first British cruise ship to be powered by LNG.<\/p>\n ABP is also working with a digital logistics enabler on one of Europe\u2019s first detailed pilot programmes using blockchain technology to improve port connectivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new zero-emissions support vehicle has been purchased by the UK Port of Barrow to reduce the usage of diesel vans and lower the carbon footprint of operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products-services-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","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=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}