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THE WORLD’S FIRST CERTIFIED CLIMATE-NEUTRAL CONTAINER TERMINAL Jan Hendrik Pietsch, Corporate Sustainability Manager, Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG

Electrification and automation are the from 2018. The aim is to make the entire the company to achieve sustainable keys to sustainable success at the HHLA HHLA Group climate-neutral by 2040. results faster, which are equally accepted Container Terminal Altenwerder in In implementing its “Balanced Logistics” by shareholders, customers, employees . sustainability strategy, HHLA is emphasizing and society. The port’s central location within its commitment to bringing together In keeping with this conviction, the Hamburg, a city of over 1.8 million environmental, social and economic world’s first certified climate-neutral inhabitants, poses challenges for port responsibility. Each is a prerequisite for container terminal has now been operations. Hamburger Hafen und the others: through economic success, the developed: HHLA Container Terminal Logistik AG (HHLA), which operates five company has the means and opportunity Altenwerder (CTA) in the . container terminals in Europe, is aware to invest in climate-friendly technologies The CTA’s certification is a clear example of of its responsibility to protect the climate and to meet its responsibility to society how innovation and automation can help in the Port of Hamburg and has been and the environment. container handling to become climate- implementing measures for economically neutral. Certification was first carried out efficient and environmentally sustainable USING TECHNOLOGICAL EXCELLENCE TO in 2019 through TÜV NORD CERT GmbH. container handling for many years. BECOME A CLIMATE-NEUTRAL GROUP The facility located at Hamburg’s The self-imposed target to reduce CO2 In view of the above, HHLA regards Süderelbe river is one of the most emissions per handled container by at innovation and technical excellence as technologically modern and efficient least 30% by 2020 was thus achieved crucial elements in developing sustainable container terminals in the world and has ahead of time in 2018. HHLA has now set solutions, being environmentally been in continual development since it itself new goals. The European logistics responsible and operating successfully. commenced operations in 2002. Operations company is working on halving its absolute Investing in innovative, climate-friendly at CTA are now primarily powered by CO2 emissions by 2030 against the figures technologies at an early stage will allow green electricity. Terminal processes that

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still produce CO2 emissions today will be for emission-free tractor units has been emissions reduction certificates and gradually electrified, or their transition to found, it will be implemented. The rail supports three compensation projects, electrical power will be field-tested. terminal which, with four rail gantry cranes which are certified according to the highest and nine tracks, is the largest of its kind in gold standard of Voluntary Emission AGV TRANSITION TO LITHIUM-ION , will also be powered exclusively Reduction (VER): wind farms in India, low- BATTERIES by green energy. Even the check vehicles friction anti-fouling paint for ship hulls and Seaborne handling (14 container gantry which staff members use to get around reforestation of rainforests in Panama. cranes) and block storage (26 storage the terminal are climate-neutral electric CTA’s CO2 footprint will be reviewed again blocks/52 gantry cranes) have always been vehicles. by TÜV NORD this year. electrified and are powered by up to 100% green energy. The approximately 100 COMPENSATING FOR UNAVOIDABLE CTA AS TEST LABORATORY FOR MOBILE automated guided vehicles (AGV) used at EMISSIONS POWER STORES CTA for between block storage The CTA has been certified by the TÜV As a highly automated and electrified and container gantry cranes are currently NORD in accordance with the TN-CC 020 handling facility, CTA is also used for the being gradually converted to use lithium- standard “Calculation & Verification of research that is being conducted for a ion batteries as their source of power. Carbon Footprints & Carbon Neutrality” number of forward-looking projects. Of the AGVs, 50% are already powered to compensate for the CO2 emissions that For example, there is research and entirely by green electricity. By 2022, all are still being released. As an independent development work being carried out as part AGVs are to dispense with combustion verification body, TÜV NORD has calculated of the funded project FRESH. The acronym engines and will have made the switch to the current CO2 footprint of CTA. This FRESH stands for Flexibilitätsmanagement lithium-ion technology. Upon completion included factors such as continued diesel und Regelenergiebereitstellung von of these measures, the eco-friendly and gas consumption, employees’ daily Schwerlastfahrzeugen im Hafen (Flexibility vehicles will be able to independently and commute and upstream supply chain Management and Balancing Energy automatically recharge using green energy emissions for all energy sources used. A Provision for Heavy-Duty Vehicles in the at 18 electric charging stations. 5 percent uncertainty factor is included Port). One of the greatest challenges of For onshore handling, prototype tests in the calculation of the CO2 value and the energy transition in Germany is the of battery-powered tractor units for the is counteracted by HHLA’s targeted safeguarding of grid stability. By now, the transportation of containers between compensation measures. The uncertainty share of renewable energy sources in block storage and the rail terminal are factor is deliberately very high, to be on the German electricity mix sits at 40%. currently being carried out. As soon as the safe side in calculating CO2 emissions. This development requires technical a technically satisfactory, operationally HHLA compensates for CO2 emissions solutions by the network providers so that feasible and commercially viable solution that are still being generated through companies and private consumers may

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soundly be supplied with electricity at all times. Together with its partners, HHLA ABOUT THE AUTHOR logistics company. Its core business is determining the extent to which the is container handling in seaports and battery capacities of the automated guided Jan Hendrik Pietsch, an industrial clerk container between ports and vehicles used at CTA could be connected to and business administration graduate, is the German and European hinterland. the German grid as flexible power stores in responsible for ensuring the sustainability HHLA’s seaborne handling facilities in order to provide primary balancing power of operations and the reconciliation of Hamburg (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia) and under commercial conditions to ensure environmental, social and economic Odessa (Ukraine) are logistics hubs for grid stability. A process and software responsibilities at Hamburger Hafen world trade. Its rail subsidiary, METRANS, solution for electricity market access will be und Logistik AG (HHLA). His areas of is a leading rail operator for intermodal developed in the course of the three-year responsibility include calculating the container transports in Europe. HHLA also research project. It will digitally control Group’s carbon footprint, initiating and offers a broad spectrum of port, consulting the demands of the virtual power plant coordinating projects that are relevant to and other services. operator and smooth terminal operations. sustainability and maintaining a dialogue After all 100 AGVs have made the switch with stakeholders regarding matters ENQUIRIES to fast-charging lithium-ion batteries relating to sustainability. His maxim is: by 2022, on the basis of calculations, “Sustainability is always the sum of many Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG HHLA could make 4 megawatts of power small ideas and measures.” Bei St. Annen 1 available to the electricity market at the D-20457 Hamburg, Germany CTA’s 18 future electric charging stations. ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Tel.: +49-40-3088-0 Through this, HHLA would be carrying out Fax: +49-40-3088-3355 pioneering work in the field of grid stability Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG is a Email: [email protected] and supporting the energy transition in leading European port and transport www.hhla.de Germany.

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