- The Port of Vancouver is testing an array of low– and zero-emission fuels.
- The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is working together with partners from across the port community.
- Plan is to achieve zero emissions by 2050.
Through the Low-Emission Technology Initiative, a joint scheme between the port authority and the Province of British Columbia, the port authority and the province have each committed CA$1.5 million ($1.1 million) in funding to support the port community’s transition to low-emission energy.
Charting Out a Course
The initiative includes testing of battery-electric-powered terminal tractors; 100 percent biodiesel on commercial ferries; a hydrogen-powered crane; and 100 per cent renewable diesel on a terminal locomotive and one of the port authority’s patrol boats. “Charting our course towards a zero-emission port starts with collaborative efforts like these – between the port authority, the port community, and government – to test innovative new low-emission fuels and technologies…” Efforts to test low-emission fuels include a six-month trial of 100 percent renewable diesel on one of the port authority’s patrol boats, the Takaya – the first federal agency in Canada to do so according to the port authority.
Stakeholders Involved
Partners to this initiative include Viterra, DP World, and Seaspan Ferries. DP World, which operates four container terminals across British Columbia, recently installed five zero-emission electric rail-mounted gantry cranes at its Centerm container terminal on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and additional shore power technology. The carrier is also in the final planning stages of retrofitting a hydrogen fuel cell-powered rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) crane.
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Source: Porttechnology
