Hapag-Lloyd has purchased 3,700 Maersk Container Industry (MCI) Star Cool Integrated reefers, of which just under a third are fitted with more environmentally friendly systems.
MCI will fit 1,000 containers with R513A refrigerant systems, which the company claims has a global warming potential (GWP) of less than 56% compared to the commonly used R134A system.
GWP is a measure of how much heat a greenhouse gas traps in the atmosphere, worked out by comparing the amount of heat trapped by a certain mass of gas to a similar mass of carbon dioxide.
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