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NewsRotterdam trials water and weather app
A water and weather application being trialled as part of the Port of Rotterdam Authority’s new Internet of Things (IoT) platform is anticipated to improve operational safety and efficiency.
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NewsPort Said to tackle oil waste
Ecoslops and the Suez Canal Economic Zone have formed an agreement to establish a collection, reception and treatment unit for maritime oil waste in Egypt’s Port Said to help tackle ship pollution.
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NewsFirst LNG bunkered at Sakai Senboku
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd’s (MOL) LNG-fuelled tugboat ‘Ishin’ has bunkered LNG fuel in Japan’s Sakai Senboku Port for the first time in what is also the first bunkering of LNG as a vessel fuel at any port in Japan’s Kansai region.
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NewsKFTL hits mass recycling drive milestone
Alongside the Jamaican government’s ban on plastic bags and straws from 1 January, Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited (KFTL) has recycled over 100,000 plastic bottles in over seven months.
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NewsFirst bunkering for new Containerships ship
Containerships’ first LNG-fuelled container vessel has undergone its first LNG bunkering by Shell’s ''Cardissa'' at the Port of Rotterdam.
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NewsElectric trucks drive down cruise footprint
Solent Stevedores has invested GB£1m into 33 electric counter balance forklift trucks from STILL Materials Handling to help reduce emissions at the Port of Southampton ahead of the 2019 cruise season.
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NewsBarcelona to measure LNG efficiency
The Port of Barcelona has partnered with multiple stakeholders to pilot and measure the efficiency of LNG on land and at sea to try and reduce NOx, SO2 and PM emissions.
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NewsFirst hybrid straddle carriers at Hamburg
The first two energy saving, low emissions straddle carriers with hybrid engines are now operating at the Port of Hamburg’s HHLA Container Terminal Tollerort (CTT) and are expected to use at least 15% less diesel than their predecessors.
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NewsExxonMobil joins Wilhelmshaven FSRU project
ExxonMobil Gas Marketing Europe Limited will provide a substantial share of regasification capacity in Uniper’s FSRU (Floating Storage and Regasification) project at the Port of Wilhelmshaven.
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NewsFujairah latest to ban open-loop scrubbers
The Port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates has become the latest port to ban the use of open-loop scrubbers from 2020 over environmental concerns.
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NewsFirst Australasian port joins EcoPorts
Port of Newcastle has become the first port in Australasia to be granted membership of the International EcoPorts network after committing to meeting its global environmental and sustainability standards.
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NewsShore power use up 7% YoY at Oakland
75% of all ships visiting the Port of Oakland in 2018 used shore power to help reduce emissions, up from 68% the year before and with usage reaching an all time high of 82% in December 2018.
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NewsUK sets eco targets in ‘Maritime 2050’ report
In the next 5-15 years the UK government will aims for at least one major port in the UK to have zero-emissions across all its ship-side activity.
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NewsLNG infrastructure planned for Algerian port
The Sonatrach Group and China Harbor Engineering Company (CHEC) have signed a contract for the supply and construction of an LNG marine jetty and marine and port infrastructure located in the Port of Skikda in Algeria.
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NewsElectric cranes boost eco German terminal
Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) has added two extra tracks and two new zero-emission electric rail gantry cranes to its rail terminal at the Container Terminal Burchardkai (CTB) at the Port of Hamburg..
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NewsFunding for zero-emission hydrogen vehicles
Ports of Auckland (POAL) has been approved for part-funding for the purchase of zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from the Government’s Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund (LEVCF) to further its plan to build a hydrogen production and refuelling facility at its Waitemata port.
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NewsItaly’s LNG sector boosted by new partnership
A new LNG-focused collaboration agreement will facilitate the advancement of port facilities in Italy and maritime transport systems based on new technologies.
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News€5m CO2 reduction incentive scheme launched
A €5m incentive scheme to promote projects and demonstrations that utilise low-carbon or zero-carbon fuels delivered in Rotterdam’s port area has been launched by the Port of Rotterdam Authority.
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NewsPlea for better green incentives from ports
Incentives from ports need to be better when it comes to environmental improvement, it was argued at a roundtable centred on ports’ role in decarbonising the maritime transport sector at the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Katowice in Poland.
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NewsPLA doubles green tariff discount
The Port of London Authority (PLA) has doubled its green tariff discount to boost tidal Thames air quality and later this year will launch the UK''s first hybrid pilot cutter to cut pollution.
