Container Ship Emissions in World Ports: A Comparative Overview

The share of shipping in global air pollutant emissions is approximately 3% of total emissions, and projected to increase dramatically over the next decades. The places most directly impacted by these emissions are ports and port cities. There is a handful of studies that have assessed ship emissions in a particular port. To the authors' knowledge, there are only two studies that have calculated the total in-port shipping emissions, but no studies in which the shipping emissions in port areas are compared. This paper fills this gap: it will estimate selected air pollutant emissions from container ships in a set of 571 ports worldwide. This will be done through a bottom up approach, using detailed vessel data from May 2011, which include exact indications of the time each vessel stayed in each port. This element of the calculation of shipping emissions has so far been based on assumptions or inexact information. The authors' calculations indicate container ship emissions in ports in the order of 1,401 tonnes of PM 10 , 18,061 tonnes of NOx and 13,638 tonnes of SO2 . The distribution of these emissions amongst ports is very skewed, with almost half of the container ship emissions taking place in only 25 ports. Approximately 65% of pollutants are emitted in Asian and European ports, which is relatively limited considering that 71% of the port calls took place in these areas. Ports in North America, Africa and Oceania have relatively more emissions per port traffic.

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  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Corporate Authors:

  Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
  Tung International Centre for Maritime Studies
  Hong Kong,   China 
• Authors:
  • Merk, Olaf
• Conference:
  • International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA) 2012: Transport Logistics for Sustainable Growth at a New Level
  • Location: Hong Kong , China
  • Date: 2012-5-27 to 2012-5-30
• Publication Date: 2012

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 510-519
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports (IFSPA) 2012: Transport Logistics for Sustainable Growth at a New Level

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Container terminals; Containerships; Environmental impacts; Pollutants; Ports; Shipping
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01485369
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9789623677578
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 1 2013 9:55AM