Emissions from loading and berthing operations in ports in North Rhine-Westphalia have so far been determined by means of estimations based on the handling of goods. An applicable method for estimating emissions based on differentiated data on the number of berthing ships, the berthing times, the actual power demand and the emission behavior of the generators on the ships was missing. For this purpose, a methodology was developed and tested by the LANUV within the framework of CLINSH.

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