{"id":1337,"date":"2025-10-20T10:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/port-of-gothenburg-slashes-quay-co2-by-30-per-cent\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T02:28:33","slug":"port-of-gothenburg-slashes-quay-co2-by-30-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/port-of-gothenburg-slashes-quay-co2-by-30-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Gothenburg slashes quay CO2 by 30 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:900px; margin:0 auto; background-color:rgb(246,246,246); padding:20px;line-height:30px\">\n<p>The Port of Gothenburg has successfully reduced carbon dioxide emissions by <\/p>\n<p>30 per cent in its Skandia Gateway quay construction, without significantly <\/p>\n<p>raising costs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1760927254101813-1.jpg\" alt=\"Port of Gothenburg slashes quay CO2 by 30 per cent\" title=\"Port of Gothenburg slashes quay CO2 by 30 per cent\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; padding: 20px 0px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It is possible to build climate-smart in large infrastructure projects <\/p>\n<p>without breaking the bank, reported the Port of Gothenburg. This has been <\/p>\n<p>demonstrated by the latest figures from the Skandia Gateway fairway project.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The port\u2019s procurement requirements, focusing on climate-smart material <\/p>\n<p>choices and encouraging innovative solutions, have played a key role in <\/p>\n<p>achieving these emission reductions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The climate measures introduced resulted in only around a 1 per cent <\/p>\n<p>increase in the total quay construction budget.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>These results showcase how sustainability and cost-efficiency can go hand <\/p>\n<p>in hand in major infrastructure developments.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jan Andersson, Project Manager for Skandia Gateway at the Port of <\/p>\n<p>Gothenburg, said: \u201cLooking at the benefits, the costs are small compared to the <\/p>\n<p>significant climate gains we achieve.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy preparing a climate calculation that clearly shows the differences in <\/p>\n<p>choices, daring to question old, ingrained methods, thinking in new ways, and <\/p>\n<p>constantly focusing on reducing carbon dioxide emissions, we have refined the <\/p>\n<p>target we set before construction started and now succeeded in reaching a 30 per <\/p>\n<p>cent reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great achievement that we have succeeded so well in reducing CO2 <\/p>\n<p>emissions in the project, and of course this should be celebrated with those who <\/p>\n<p>carry out such an important part of the work \u2013 everyone involved in the <\/p>\n<p>construction in Skandia Harbour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, the Port of Gothenburg signed new agreements with one <\/p>\n<p>of its largest customers in the energy sector, Inter Terminals Sweden.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Gothenburg has successfully reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 30 per cent in its Skandia Gateway quay construction, without significantly raising costs.It is possible to build climate-smart in large infrastructure projects without breaking the bank, reported the Port of Gothenburg. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hj_lang":[3],"class_list":["post-1337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"hj_lang","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hj_lang?post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}