Impact of GHG regulations at container terminals on the container handling equipment market

Greenhouse gas emissions from maritime transport represent a significant share of transport related emissions. In contrast to emissions from ships, emissions from container terminals are not subject to regulations issued by global entities. The lack of global regulation results in a variety of individual ambitions of often non-binding nature by terminal operators, port au-thorities and local governments. The fragmentation leads to difficulties determining the de-mand for technological solutions. Knowing the demand helps to guide development efforts and ensures sufficient production capacity is created to meet emission reduction targets. To understand present efforts and their impact, emission regulations and voluntary emission reduction targets affecting container handling equipment have been collected. The collected data may serve as a starting point into further analysis of effective emission reduction strate-gies. Combining the emission reduction targets with current handling capacity at affected container terminals and market development projections, the size of the emission-free con-tainer handling equipment market is estimated. The model predicts that in 2030, 250 million TEU, roughly 24 % of global handling capacity, will be handled by emission-free equipment. The commitments to reduce emissions are predominantly issued by private terminal opera-tors and port authorities. Only a few governmental regulations affect emissions from con-tainer handling. Compared with the predictions for the maritime sector by the Science Based Targets initiative, current emissions reduction targets are not sufficient to meet the level necessary to keep global warming below 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Therefore, if governments want to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, they need to take more actions and force the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from container terminals.

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Container Handling Equipment

GHG Regulations

Container Terminal

CHE Market

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387: Schifffahrt, Luft-, Weltraumverkehr

380: Commerce, Communications, Transport

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Impact of GHG regulations at container terminals on the container handling equipment market