Copenhagen Malmö Port (CMP) began switching its fossil fuel machinery to run on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO100) this November.

The facility's newer terminal tractors, rear loaders, and industrial trucks will be the first to phase in HVO100.

The move will avoid consuming 60 thousand litres of diesel per year, reducing CMP's footprint in Denmark by some 130t of CO2e/y.

The new battery-hybrid straddle carriers CMP ordered in April 2023 will also tank HVO100.

The terminal's ship-to-shore gantries and other work vehicles run on green electricity.

In 2025, the container terminal in Copenhagen will move to Ydre Nordhavn, and CMP expects that all fossil fuels will be phased out at all facilities by that time.

In Malmö, phasing in HVO100 reduced emissions by approximately 840t CO2e/y.

CMP intends to make its operations CO2-neutral and climate-positive by 2025 and 2040, respectively (in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative).

The Danish-Swedish port authority cut its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 57% in 2020-22, thus avoiding the release of 1,231t of CO2e.

"The green transition of CMP's operations is not something we are only planning for in the future - it is already happening now, and the phasing in of HVO100 at the container terminal in Copenhagen is a very important and natural step in our efforts to be one of the world's most sustainable ports," underscored Povl Dolleris Røjkjær Ungar, CMP's COO.

He also underlined, "The phase-in of HVO100 follows the replacement of CMP's machinery and means that CMP can also support our customers' demand for fossil-free and CO2-neutral transport chains."

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