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DP World Callao will become the first port terminal in Latin America to have a shore power supply system for vessels calling at the South Pier of Peru's main port.
The information was revealed to PortalPortuario by the company's general manager, Marco Hernández, who highlighted that this initiative is part of the extensive investment program that the operator is developing to advance the decarbonization of its operations.
"We have invested 105 million dollars in the decarbonization project, and what is relevant about this is that DP World Global Corporation has a goal for 2045, but we have it for 2032. So, the only thing we are missing to electrify out of 37 yard gantry cranes are five; all the rest are already new or converted, and this year, 16 additional electric trucks arrived, and out of 76, we are missing 40 that are in process between 2028 and 2029. So, by 2030, we should have reduced 90% of our equivalent CO2 emissions, but we have gone a step further, because those are scope 1 and 2, and we have also tackled scope 3, which are shipping lines, because next week we are going to inaugurate shore power, which only 3% of ports in the world have."
"We are going to be the first in Latam. Here, ships will arrive, and we will connect them so they receive clean energy with a terminal certificate. With that, we will have a huge impact on what we do and on what our clients do as well," he elaborated.
Hernández affirmed that this initiative was envisioned since the construction of the expansion known as Bicentennial Pier, so that the installation was carried out already projecting the capacity to supply energy to new-generation vessels calling at the terminal.
"Since we built the Bicentennial Pier, we left the structure ready, so when we were doing the equivalent CO2 measurements for the equipment conversion, we showed that, although we were going to reduce 90%, ship emissions were almost double. Therefore, the only way to contribute to having a greater impact was by executing this project that we had in our portfolio," he stated.
"Last year, we began the implementation of the necessary infrastructure for the Shore Power project. We incorporated a new electrical substation, as the energy demand of this system is equivalent to that of the entire terminal, which required installing an additional dedicated transformer. Today we are in the final stage of preparation and are close to making the first connection of a vessel to the system. In addition, we have signed memorandums of understanding with the main shipping lines, which have shown a very proactive attitude to connect, recognizing that it is a source of clean energy and a pioneering solution throughout the South American Pacific coast," he added.
Of the seven weekly vessels covering the Peru-Asia route and calling at DP World Callao, a terminal that exceeded 2 million TEU in 2025, four will connect to the system.
