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July 28, 2015 |
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Shore Power Installation Funding for Two Port Metro Vancouver Container Terminals
The Canadian federal government is joining Port Metro Vancouver in funding shore power facilities for container vessels at two of the port authority’s container terminals.
Shore power reduces emissions by allowing vessels to draw power from the local electrical grid and thereby turn off their diesel engines while in port.
Metro Vancouver was the first port in Canada to implement shore power for cruise ships, slashing greenhouse emissions by more than 11,000 metric tons since 2009. The use of shore power at Port Metro Vancouver container terminals will further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to Canada’s emissions reduction targets. It will assist Port Metro Vancouver in reaching targets under the Northwest Ports Clean Air Strategy, collaboration between Port Metro Vancouver and the ports of Tacoma and Seattle, to reduce emissions in the shared Puget Sound – Georgia Basin air shed. Shore power will also ease the impacts of growing Canadian trade on communities by reducing generator noise associated with the auxiliary engines of container vessels while in port.
The total project funding is C$12 million, with C$6 million to come Transport Canada’s Shore Power Technology for Ports Program and $6 million from Port Metro Vancouver. Of the C$12 million, $4.97 million will be used to install shore power technology at a berth at Global Container Terminal’s Deltaport terminal in Delta (BC) and C$7.3 million for the same purpose at DP World Vancouver’s Centerm Container terminal in Vancouver and upgrades on nearby BC Hydro property.
The port authority estimates that each ship connection to shore power will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 75 tons.
Both shore power operations are expected to be operational by March 31, 2017.
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