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Hamburg Süd & Electrolux: MGO in Port

Ship operator Hamburg Süd and Electrolux formed a partnership to apply their knowl- edge and experience to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions in ports. During its layovers in the

Mexican port of Manzanillo, Callao harbor in Peru, and the ports of Iquique and Puerto

Angamos in Chile in March of this year, the 7,114 TEU Santa Catarina used MGO instead of HFO to operate its auxiliary engines and boilers: these need to be running in port to supply the ship with electricity and heat. The two companies had already carried out a fuel upgrade in the past, thereby making a contribution to environmental and health protec- tion. Due to the signi? cantly lower sulfur content of MGO, the sulfur dioxide emissions for the Electrolux cargo in question is expected to decrease by more than 95 percent. In the jointly-funded project, Electrolux is bearing the additional costs for the MGO, while Hamburg Süd is assuming the extra operative expenses related to project planning and the switching of fuels. The joint sustainability project had already been initiated in a pilot phase that was run in the spring of 2017. Switching fuel from HFO to MGO is not mandatory in the four South American ports mentioned – unlike the situation in the North

Sea and the Baltic Sea or the North American ECAs. “Sulfur dioxide emissions are a major environmental issue in some of the communities around port cities where we ship our products. With this partnership, we are showing how the industry can move faster than legislation to improve the air quality in ports, and we hope more companies will get on board,” said Bjorn Vang Jensen, Vice President, Global Logistics at Electrolux. “This will support our ambition to improve the environmental footprint in the transportation chain.”

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