Angela Titzrath, Chair of HHLA’s Executive Board, noted: “Our technological excellence as well as process efficiency make climate-neutral container handling possible. We are moving closer to our goal of becoming climate-neutral throughout the group by 2040." During the certified period from January to December 2021, CTA's CO2 emissions decreased by 26.3 per cent to approximately 11,000 tonnes. Seaborne cargo throughput at the Port of Hamburg increased by 2 per cent to 128.7 metric tons over the same period in 2020, while container throughput grew by 2.2 per c ent to 8.7 million TEUs.
The drop in emissions has resulted from considerably reduced diesel consumption due to the conversion to all-electric automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Nearly 90 per cent of the AGVs in operation at CTA now run on green electricity instead of diesel. By 2023, all AGVs are expected to be converted to fast-charging, lithium-ion batteries.
