More battery-powered automated guided vehicles (AGVs) have arrived at the HHLA Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA).
The transport of containers between container gantry cranes and the fully automated storage blocks are now almost completely carried out by battery-powered AGVs.
Around 80 per cent of them are already powered by batteries, and this year they will be joined by eight further battery-powered AGVs.
The first of them arrived in March to replace their diesel-electric predecessors. The electric AGVs do not generate any local CO2, nitrogen oxide or fine particulate matter emissions, and contribute to climate-friendly container handling at CTA.
The conversion of the entire fleet by 2023 will result in an annual reduction in emissions of approximately 15,500 tonnes of CO2 and 118 tonnes of nitrogen oxide.
The roughly 90 AGVs at CTA are loaded with green energy at charging stations. Due to the fast-charging capabilities of the lithium-ion batteries, the charging time is just 90 minutes.
There are already 14 of the charging stations in operation and distributed along the AGV area at CTA, and four more are being prepared to become operational.
The conversion of the AGV fleet at CTA is supported by Hamburg’s Ministry for Environment, Climate, Energy and Agriculture using funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the ‘Energiewende in Unternehmen’ research project.
