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Friday, August 16, 2013 EUROGATE installs wind turbine at Hamburg container terminalContainer terminal and logistics group EUROGATE installed its own wind turbine at its Container Terminal Hamburg location this week, intending it to cover 25 to 50 percent of the terminal's total energy, according to a company statement. The group hopes to lower energy costs and become largely independent of price variability in power and energy markets, with an ultimate has goal to lower CO2 emissions per container by 25 percent by 2020. "The current market situation is forcing us to focus on efficient cost management in order to remain competitive over the long term," said Emanuel Schiffer, chairman of the EUROGATE Group Management Board. "In order to lower energy costs, we are pursuing a two-pronged strategy: energy generation and energy consumption. "For years we have been producing energy using photovoltaic systems, CHP plants or wood chip plants. We also began systematically recording our energy consumption some years ago and taking appropriate action to reduce it." EUROGATE reported it is currently constructing a CHP plant in Hamburg, which will be operational by January 2014. In conjunction with the wind turbine this will cover as much as two thirds of the container terminal's total electricity requirement.
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