The global network of owned and operated port terminals connects our ocean and landside activities and is critical to Maersk’s strategy of providing end-to-end logistics solutions to customers worldwide. Maersk’s ambitious energy transition journey is to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 and as an independent division within A. P.  Moller-Maersk, APM Terminals shares this ambition.

In APM Terminals, we have committed to achieve 65% absolute reduction of Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2030 (from the 2022 baseline) and net zero in 2040. Since 2020, we have reduced absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions by 13%, and 40% of electricity demand is now procured by renewable resources.

To ensure a successful implementation of our global strategy, we are building local roadmaps with our terminals revolving around three pillars:

• Reduce fuel and electricity consumption of equipment and facilities at our terminals
• Replace equipment run on fossil fuels with electrified alternatives
• Decarbonise energy supply, by switching to renewable electricity, on-site renewables, such as rooftop solar panels, and using low-emissions fuels.

We are actively engaging in collaboration with partners, suppliers, and local governments, to explore opportunities to co-develop energy solutions in specific terminals and lead the decarbonisation agenda together with our communities.

These efforts create value for our customers by e.g. reducing their scope 3 emissions. Lower emissions enhance the air quality for the local community and employees and there is less noise pollution by using electrified equipment. In practice, the value creation for our customers and communities is multi-faceted and terminal specific, and we work together with our leaders in the terminals to capture local nuances while delivering on our global targets.

APM Terminals’ ambition is to lead decarbonisation within the terminal industry, as we support our customers and our communities in decarbonising their supply chains.  

To support our ambition and our effort to drive decarbonisation in the industry, in 2023 APM Terminals and DP World published a joint white paper emphasising the importance of electrified container handling equipment. The high cost of battery-electric equipment is a primary challenge to decarbonisation in the terminals industry; however, research shows that with the right actions from industry stakeholders, battery-electric equipment can be an affordable and accessible solution this decade, and competitive with incumbent technologies. The white paper offers a roadmap for container terminal electrification, with key levers and actions for all players across the value chain.

With the white paper as the backbone, APM Terminals and DP World along with Systemiq founded the Zero Emission Port Alliance (ZEPA), an industry-wide strategic coalition with the aim to drive decarbonisation of ports and terminals by accelerating electrification.

ZEPA’s mission is to make battery-electric container handling equipment (CHE) affordable, accessible, and attractive by 2030.

To this end, the objectives of ZEPA are to:

• Encourage scaled up production capacity and shorter lead times & reduce product costs through increased demand signalling from terminal operators
• Bring down cost of batteries and charging solutions and simplify implementation through voluntary design standards
• Facilitate cost-efficient roll-out of power infrastructure required for BE-CHE and shore power, and
• Create better market conditions and help accelerate the adoption of untethered BE-CHE.

APM Terminals is committed to Lifting Global Trade in a responsible way. And as part of that, we believe, we’re in strong position to drive real, meaningful change on the decarbonisation agenda, and we continue to take a leading role in mobilizing collective action across different stakeholders to make a real impact in this decade.