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DP World has launched a carbon inset scheme at its Southampton terminal, allowing customers to claim a share of emissions reductions generated at the port towards their own supply chain targets.
Container Terminal Inset Certificates are created through emissions reductions through the use of biofuels, electrification and generation of renewable electricity. These savings are then converted into uniquely allocated certificates that customers can use to report lower Scope 3 emissions across ...
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DP World is investing £60m in the four largest quay cranes in at its Southampton container terminal. The quad-lift machines will stand taller than Big Ben and are scheduled to arrive from mid-2026.
UK commercial, ports and terminals vice president, Aart Hille Ris Lambers,said: “Our order for these new large quay ...
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DP World says its Modal Shift Programme in Southampton to encourage container shippers to switch from road to rail has removed 64,300 truck journeys from UK roads and cut carbon emissions by more than 17,000 tonnes in its first year.
Under the programme, launched in Septmeber 2023, customers are paid an ...
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DP World is targeting a 40% rail freight share for containers from Southampton in 2026 with its Modal Shift Programme. The scheme, which is being extended until the end of next year, encourages freight owners to move their containers import-laden containers via rail to a railhead within 140 miles of ...
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DP World says its Modal Shift Programme has achieved a 66% increase in the share of freight being transported by rail from Southampton.
The Modal Shift Programme trial, introduced last September, offers an £80 financial incentive to shippers moving import-laden containers via rail to a railhead within 140 miles of the ...
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DP World has introduced a remote ‘pinning’ station at its Southampton container terminal. ‘Pinning’ is the process of manually placing a twistlock into the corner casting of a container to keep it in place at sea. For the past 50 years, twistlocks were put in and taken out on the ...
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DP World has built a new slipway for the Southampton Sea Cadets as part of its community investment programme. The old slipway had deteriorated badly and was becoming hazardous the port operator and partners Earlcoate stepped in to save the boating season for the cadets’ kayakers, rowers and dinghy sailors.
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DP World is to lease a 7,500sq m site next to its Southampton container terminal to develop facilities for lorry drivers.
The £15m project, on land previously used for car storage, will deliver facilities including a restaurant, showers, toilets and 24-hour security as well as increasing the container storage area.
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DP World says its Southampton container terminal enjoyed its greenest ever year in 2022 after delivering a 55% reduction in net carbon emissions from its fleet and installations.
Southampton plans to become the first port in the UK to eliminate fossil diesel from its operations entirely and transition to Hydrotreated Vegetable ...
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DP World Southampton has completed a crane rail extension that will allow the world’s largest cranes to service the full length of the quay.
It will facilitate the movement of some of the terminal’s 12 Liebherr cranes which stand up to 130m high and increase flexibility as well as speeding up ...
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