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Pudong port to offer electricity to ships
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SHIPS visiting the Pudong New Area from next year will be given access to a new electricity supply in a bid to stop them burning high-polluting fuels while in dock.
Generators will be installed at the Waigaoqiao Port to provide vessels with the power they need, the Shanghai Transport Commission said yesterday.
According to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, a United States-based nongovernmental environmental advocacy group, most ships at Chinese ports use cheap bunker fuel, which is high in sulfur, while port vehicles and equipment are generally powered by diesel.
The combined exhaust from ships and ports contains high levels of diesel particulate matter, and oxides of nitrogen and sulfur, it said.
As the world’s largest container port, Shanghai handles more than 50,000 ships a year from across China and the world.
As well as the new power equipment, the commission said it will continue to tackle the problem of air pollution caused by ships by preventing old vessels from working on Shanghai’s waterways.
A total of 39 ships have been withdrawn from service this year, it said, adding that their owners were offered financial incentives to abandon their aging vessels.
According to official figures, pollution from ships accounts for 12 percent of the city’s total sulfur dioxide emissions, 11 percent of its nitrous oxide emissions and about 5 percent of all PM2.5 particles.
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