COLD IRONING UP AND RUNNING IN MAJOR EUROPEAN PORT

摘要

For the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), Siemens has built a turnkey onshore power supply at the Hamburg Altona cruise terminal to provide grid power to docked ships. Known as cold ironing, or shore-to-ship power (SSP) and alternative maritime power (AMP), the provision of shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth enables its generators to be switched off. The Hamburg installation is the first European onshore power supply system of its type, that adjusts the frequency of the local distribution grid to any ship's electrical system. The system has specially developed cable management for cruise ships that provides a fast, easy and flexible connection between the shore and the ship, including for Hamburg a custom-built, mobile robot arm designed specifically to cope with the tidal range of up to nine metres.