Environmental Achievements at EUROGATE

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Environmental Achievements at EUROGATE
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EUROGATE company profile

• EUROGATE is Europes leading container terminal
  and logistics group
• Jointly with Contship Italia - Eurogate runs 10
  terminal locations
• handling 14.2 million TEUs in 2008
• 4,500 employees  in Germany
• founded in 1999
• Merging the container business of Eurokai Hamburg
  and BLG Logistics group Bremerhaven
• head office in Bremen, Germany

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Innovative Heat and Electricity generation

• 1987 installation of a gas-fuelled power plant
  to simultaneously generate heat and electricity
  for office buildings and workshops
• 2006 installation of a heating plant fuelled
  with waste dunnage wood in Bremerhaven
• 2007 installation of 14 heat pumps for small
  remote buildings e.g. at truckers
  check-in-points
• 2007 deliberate analyses of wind mill
  installation in Bremerhaven -gt outweighted by
  noise reduction and safety
• 2008 wood fuelled heating plant in Hamburg

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Automotive engineering

• Reducing 30 of fuel demand by technology shift
  from diesel hydraulic to diesel electric motors
  in 2006 to 2008 annual CO2-reduction of 21,000t
• Investment in further research towards
• Improved hybrid straddle carriers for better
  energy recuperation from braking the vehicle or
  dropping the container
• development of a hydrogen powered vehicle
• Investment in development of a rope-way container
  transportation as a new generation of internal
  container transport systems within the port
• Present investigation programme on fuel reduction
  by deliberate driving methods

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Further environmental measures

• Green-IT Consolidation of server equipment
• Perpetual optimisation of illumination towards
  bird and insect compatibility and energy
  efficiency
• Recycling of construction material
• Recycling of used oils
• Use of recycling paper for internal purposes

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