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CAAP to accelerate progress toward zero-emissions
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he San Pedro Bay ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have released a final report on the current state and overall feasibility of using clean cargo-handling equipment technology,
while working toward the 2017 Clean Air Action Plan (CAAP) Update’s 2030 goal of a zero-emissions cargo- handling fleet. The ports released a draft assessment in March
2022 for public review which built upon the inaugural 2018 assessment and examined the current state of technology, operational characteristics, economic considerations, infrastructure availability, and commercial readiness related to cleaner cargo-handling equipment. The final report addresses feedback from a diverse group of stakeholders. Updated in 2017, the CAAP contains a strategy
to accelerate progress toward a zero-emissions future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy. As part of this strategy, the ports committed to developing feasibility assessments every three years for terminal equipment and drayage trucks to meet those goals. Currently, the ports are demonstrating 56 pieces of
cargo-handling equipment, including zero-emissions yard tractors, top handlers, forklifts, and rubber- tired gantry cranes, and 16 class 8 on-road trucks, including hybrid, battery-electric, and hydrogen fuel cell technologies, with a number of additional terminal equipment and on-road trucks to be commissioned by the end of the year. Since 2005, port-related air pollution emissions in San Pedro Bay have dropped 90% for diesel
particulate matter, 63% for nitrogen oxides and 97% for sulfur oxides. Targets for reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) from port-related sources were introduced as part of the 2017 CAAP Update. The document calls for ports to reduce GHGs to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. In other news, the International Marine Contractors
Association’s (IMCA’s) ‘Guidelines for lifting operations’ (IMCA LR 006) has been updated to ensure it properly covers all elements of lifting operations in renewable energy sector contracting activities. “Offshore wind involves an ever-increasing number
of our members. Our work group has reviewed IMCA LR 006 and made a number of additions and amendments to ensure it provides an invaluable resource enabling work in the rapidly expanding global market to be undertaken safely and efficiently,” said Mark Ford, marine & quality manager, IMCA, adding one area for concern in lifting incidents is complacency: “Complacency makes personnel skip hurriedly through checklists or fail to monitor instruments closely. It can cause personnel to use shortcuts and poor judgement, and to resort to other malpractices that mean the difference between hazardous performance and professional; performance.” It has also revised Appendix A4 ‘Lifting of Offshore Wind Turbine Components’. when performing repetitive lifts of wind turbine components at height.
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‘The Clean Air Action Plan contains a strategy to accelerate progress toward a zero-emissions future while protecting and strengthening the ports’ competitive position in the global economy’
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