The Port of Valencia will be the first port in Europe to incorporate hydrogen technologies to reduce the environmental impact of its terminal machinery operations.
From January, the Port of Valencia will be testing a hydrogen station which will provide the fuel for equipment as part of the H2Ports project.
The first piece of equipment to be tested is a reachstacker powered by hydrogen and put through its paces at MSC Terminal Valencia. This will be accompanied by a 4×4 tractor unit equipped with a fuel cell stack which will be tested in loading/unloading operations at Grimaldi Group’s Valencia Terminal Europa.
“These are very important machines in the Port of Valencia because they are in operation 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and within our objectives and calculations of emissions, the terminal machinery represents almost 25% of the emissions that we want to reduce through this type of energy,” explains APV head of ecological transition Federico Torres.
Source: forkliftaction.com
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