China Announces Seven Terminals to Trial Shore Power

China's Ministry of Transport has requested the applicable authorities make necessary preparations after it announced that seven terminals in the country will trial shore power installations for ships.

China's Ministry of Transport has requested applicable authorities make necessary preparations after it announced that seven terminals in the country have been selected for the trial implementation of shore power for ships.

It is reported that, under the trials, Lianyungang's new eastern zone container terminal berth number 27 and a passenger berth will have shore power tested by the ship Zi Yu Lan, while installations at Guangzhou's Nansha zone terminal, Shenzhen's Yantian international container terminal 3, Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal's berth number one, and Ningbo-Zhoushan Chuanshan's container terminal will be tested by a 10,000 TEU COSCO container ship, with the dry bulk terminal to be tested by a 250,000 DWT Shandong Shipping iron ore carrier.

The ministry of transport has said that all trials and resulting reports, which will include the technology's effectiveness in reducing emissions, ease of installation, operational management, and other information, must be submitted to the appropriate local authorities by the end of 2016.

Chinese authorities are said to be expecting that a 99 percent reduction in nitrogen oxides emissions to be achieved by ships plugging into shore power, while particulate matter emissions would be reduced to 3-17 percent compared to that of ships burning HFO.

As Ship & Bunker previously reported, the Port of Shanghai announced in 2014 that it would begin offering shore power beginning in 2015, with the city's first electric generator for container ships installed at the Yangshan port set to be put into use around June, and the first high-voltage electric generator at the Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal is reported to be slated to undergo a trial run by September.

In February, it was reported that, with the intent of reducing air pollution, officials in Shanghai had announced plans to build six electric generators to provide shore power to an increasing number of cruise liners berthing at the port's cruise ship terminals.