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Container Equipment

Driving Efficiently

Towards Zero Emissions

Credit: Kalmar

As the Port of Long Beach Starts Year-long Freight and electric vehicle (EV) testing, Kalmar’s newest workhorse – the Kalmar Ottawa Electric terminal tractor, T2E – will be doing some of the heavy lifting.

By Tom Ewing s California presses on with state-wide transportation 24/7. Diesel emissions are a big concern – especially when electrifcation (TE), new equipment is starting to bring transiting to and from the port to inland drayage concentra-

Anew, greener muscle to California’s heavy freight and tions, warehouses and other facilities.

equipment sectors, ready to replace old school dirty diesel machines. This turnover, critical to the state’s environmental

Kalmar’s Newest all-electric terminal and energy policies, won’t be inexpensive. Nevertheless, the tractor to the Rescue world’s 5th largest economy’s (California) continued success Out in front of these policies, Kalmar’s newest green eco- will increasingly depend on capabilities from new kinds of friendly all-electric terminal tractor extends this possibility effcient, yet considerably cleaner workhorses. into the short run drayage model outside the gates. As south-

California’s ports are central concerns for state air quality ern California and Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach look regulators. This is particularly true right now at the Ports of towards the goal of zero emissions by 2030, Kalmar is there to

Long Beach and Los Angeles. It is also true that ports con- provide a solution that just might ft the bill, especially where tribute just a fraction of the golden state’s overall air pollution local sentiments are now pondering the inclusion of outside load, but for neighboring communities, ports present some warehousing in the port’s environmental signature. These so- unique emission control challenges. First, in metropolitan called ‘incidental emissions’ are now very much in play.

regions, there’s not much buffer between a Port’s industrial- In a nutshell, Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is introducing an scale operations and local neighborhoods. Second, ports nec- electric version of its popular Kalmar Ottawa T2 terminal trac- essarily exist adjacent to an almost endless number of mobile tor. The Kalmar Ottawa Electric Terminal Tractor is designed and stationary pollution sources, some which may operate for trailer-handling operations in dispersed warehouses, con- 40 Maritime Logistics Professional May/June 2018 | |