Most seaports have a number of problems relating to pollution. First are the trucks employed to transport the containers from dockside to the nearby railheads to be loaded onto flat cars. The companies and individuals that perform this vital work usually have older equipment that does not meet current pollution standards.

Because of the sheer volume of containers moving through these ports, hundreds of trucks make thousands of trips a day. For example, at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach this summer, there were 16,300 trucks working each day to transport containers.

Since all of the trucks cycle through the Port facility each day, central HYDRNOL Fueling Stations could be set up to provide the hydrogen to cut CO2, NOox, and soot emissions dramatically.

Another application is the ships themselves. Most ships burn high-sulfur fuel called bunker fuel. The sulfur is measured inamounts to 23,000 parts per million. In fact, a British researcher calculated that the ships at sea and in ports emit more greenhouse gases than all the vehicles on the roads. While this application would be more difficult, hydrogen from Asemblon’s HYDRNOL Carrier could be used to clean up ships exhaust at dockside.