Barcelona launches ambitious environmental strategy
The Port of Barcelona, Spain, has launched a new initiative aimed at improving air quality through 25 actions including promoting liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel and offering discounts to cleaner ships.
The Air Quality Improvement Plan includes projects to support the use of LNG to power ships, terminal machinery and trucks and provide the port with new infrastructure aimed at facilitating LNG fuelling for vessels.
The port is set to run tests to convert two straddle carriers used in the container facilities from diesel to LNG in order to analyse their performance, efficiency and emission levels.
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