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Initial situation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Freight transport still relies predominantly on vehicles with conventional propulsion technologies and fuels. This leads to a deterioration in air quality with increasing traffic volumes under otherwise identical conditions, especially in port cities, and has local effects on the environment and human health<\/a>. Sustained or increasing environmental pollution from transports therefore requires prompt steps to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollutants. In addition to regulations in the international and national legal framework, measures taken by the stakeholders involved (ports, terminal operators, shipping companies at both global, national and local levels) must also help to reduce emissions from freight transport and improve the overall sustainability of transport chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Freight traffic in a seaport city increases the concentration of air pollutants and of climate gas (e.g. in the box of the emissions), and therefore has a direct impact on environmental and health risks. (Own presentation.) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There is more and more knowledge about freight transport-related emissions and their contribution to air quality. In addition to publications in journals, the below are very good examples in the following fields:<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t