Conversion to environmentally friendly transport
NOAH works purposefully and actively along the value chain to find environmentally friendly and efficient solutions for the transport of masses into our facilities. This takes place in close cooperation with customers, carriers and other partners.
It is in the transport section that the biggest environmental savings of our business can be achieved; both in terms of local load on the road and reduced emissions. Therefore, over many years, NOAH has worked purposefully to switch to more sustainable transport of fly ash and other residual fractions that enter our facilities.
Among the most important measures are:
- Use of all-electric sea drones for transporting fly ash from Moss to Langøya in collaboration with the food wholesaler ASKO. The measure cuts 6000 cars/year from the roads in Vestfold. Read more here.
- Conversion to biodiesel on the ash transports from Sweden and for the machine park in Engadalen and on Langøya.
- Close collaboration with industrial customers to move transport from road to sea. This has resulted in approximately 1000 fewer cars on the roads since 2023.
- Development of a bulk carrier converted to a battery hybrid in collaboration with the shipping company Hagland Shipping. Hagland Captain cuts NOx emissions by up to 90 per cent and CO2 emissions by up to 20 per cent. read more here .
Reorganization and digitization
Through 2023 and 2024, NOAH has rearranged almost the entire logistics system to adapt to shipping with trolleys on electric sea drones. This involves a large-scale restructuring, digitization and efficiency in all stages. Part of the restructuring is a closer collaboration with the main carrier Sørum Transport, which you can read more about here.
From road to sea
A goal for NOAH is to move as much mass transport as possible from road to sea or rail.
This cuts CO2 emissions in general, and minimizes transport through local centres, especially through Holmestrand city. One example is Alcoa, which in 2023 moved its transport of industrial fractions from Iceland to ships. This change alone led to 550 fewer cars and amounts to 1100 fewer turns by lorry through the center of Holmestrand, as well as an associated reduction in emissions.
Through well-established port terminals, such as in Horsens in Jutland, NOAH collects larger volumes for efficient shipping on ships directly to Langøya. This saves the road network for ordinary lorry transport, which in turn constitutes a significant environmental benefit. The company introduces its own requirements for transporters for this in new contracts, where it is desirable that they present an alternative to environmentally friendly transport, for example by using biogas or electric trucks. Environmentally friendly alternatives and solutions for road transport will always be included as a central assessment factor when NOAH surveys commercial opportunities.
New logistics routes
NOAH owns and operates Rekefjord Stone in Sokndal, which extracts and transports quality stone to the European market. The companies work together to coordinate transport at sea to reduce environmental emissions. Among other things, the battery hybrid Hagland Captain will transport stone to Denmark and load fly ash back to Denmark Langøya. NOAH has also been awarded support for shore power to its ports from Enova.