CMP's container terminal in Denmark goes green - ahead of time

September 13, 2024

Copenhagen Malmö Port's (CMP) box-handling facility in the Danish capital has fully switched to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO100) as well as green electricity to run its quay and yard machinery.

The port company started with phasing in HVO100 for operating terminal tractors, empty container handlers, and forklifts. CMP's new hybrid straddle carriers were next, followed by older models.

Meanwhile, the terminal's ship-to-shore gantries and work vehicles have already been running on electricity sourced from renewables.

Switching to HVO100, which replaced some 286 thousand litres of fossil diesel consumed by CMP in Copenhagen annually, will result in reducing CO2e emissions by 640 tonnes/year.

Originally, it was planned that the full phasing-in of HVO in Copenhagen would not take place until the commissioning of the new container terminal at Ydre Nordhavn in 2025.

"We at CMP are very proud to be able to offer container terminal handling in Copenhagen without the use of fossil fuels - and this more than half a year ahead of the original schedule. This is an integral step in our green transition, as well as our customers' and the entire transport sector's green transition. The container terminal in Copenhagen is absolutely crucial for consumers and companies in the Copenhagen metropolitan area a capital area and Region Zealand as a whole - as it handles the vast majority of containers for the market in the eastern part of Denmark. It is therefore very important for us to have eliminated fossil fuels in our terminal operations and thereby support the phase-out of CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in Copenhagen as well as in Malmö," Povl Dolleris Røjkjær Ungar, CMP's COO, highlighted.

CMP intends to make its own operations zero-emission by 2025 and climate positive by 2040 (in accordance with the Science Based Targets initiative).

"Over the course of 2020-2023, CMP has reduced its CO2 emissions in its operations (GHG Scope 1+2) by 68%. This corresponds to an annual reduction of 1,477 tonnes of CO2e. In Malmö, HVO100 has already been deployed by CMP, which has reduced CMP's emissions by more than an estimated 840 tonnes CO2e annually," the joint Danish-Swedish port authority said in a press release.

Photo: CMP

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