{"id":5356,"date":"2025-06-09T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/06\/09\/strategic-partnerships-in-port-electrification\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:16:26","slug":"strategic-partnerships-in-port-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/products-services-greenport\/strategic-partnerships-in-port-electrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic partnerships in port electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The agreements will focus on deploying battery-electric container handling equipment, including electric terminal tractors, across APM Terminals\u2019 global network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to extend our strong partnership with CATL through this strategic agreement, which supports our aim to decarbonise terminal operations with battery-electric container handling equipment,\u201d said Grant Morrison, head of APM Terminals global asset category management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emissions reduction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The collaboration with CATL will combine the company\u2019s cutting-edge battery technologies with APM Terminals\u2019 operational scale and logistics expertise.<\/p>\n<p>CATL will supply high-performance batteries and system-level solutions to power electric port equipment, enabling significant emissions reductions.<\/p>\n<p>In an additional agreement, APM Terminals and SANY Marine have signed a Master Framework Agreement for the future supply of&nbsp;battery-electric terminal tractors.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, about 500 diesel-powered terminal tractors across APM Terminals\u2019 global network&nbsp;will be replaced with battery-electric models by 2030.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CATL has previously partnered up with Sany on previous electrification projects including a battery swapping project for heavy-duty trucks in Fujian.<\/p>\n<p>All parties are members of the Zero Emission Port Alliance (ZEPA), which seeks to accelerate clean energy transitions across the shipping industry.<\/p>\n<p>The partnerships extend across the full battery lifecycle, from product development to recycling, ensuring sustainable operations.<\/p>\n<p>These new agreements align with APM Terminals\u2019 goal to reach net-zero emissions by 2040 by using electric terminal tractors and other electric port equipment powered by renewable energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APM Terminals, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) and Sany Marine have formed new strategic partnerships to drive port decarbonisation through electric port equipment and battery power solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,22],"tags":[18,409,2123,1835,2122,48],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-products-services-greenport","tag-apm-terminals","tag-battery-powered-tractors","tag-catl","tag-electric-port-equipment","tag-sany-marine","tag-shorepower-electrification"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","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=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}