News / COP28: DP World and APMT aim to cut the cost of electrifying port operations

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DP World and APM Terminals have formed the Zero Emission Port Alliance (ZEPA), which aims to lower the price of battery-electric port equipment through collective bargaining.

The two companies hope this will create a tipping point where ports inside and outside of the organisation are incentivised to electrify. Its efforts will begin in the new year, its founders say.

Although electrifying static or rail-mounted port equipment, such as quay cranes and RTGs, is straightforward through connections to grid power via cable, electrifying ...