Day two of Coastlink saw Maurice Delattre, regional director (Europe), Port of Amsterdam, share the latest on how strategic partnerships have been accelerating the energy transition at the port. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe next phase in green corridor is all about collaboration,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBecause if we can\u2019t tackle the fuels transition then we\u2019re going to be much less relevant than we are today.\u201d <\/p>\n
Market change<\/strong><\/p>\n For the Port of Amsterdam, a key focus has been its 78.6 million tonne transhipment market. <\/p>\n At Amsterdam, Mr Delattre said, its always been a challenge to accomodate all of the requirements of the stakeholders at the port and the capital, the airport and the community. <\/p>\n One of its main focuses is to move the industrial cluster including the steel industry, away from fossil fuels and towards alternative fuels, with a particular focus on green hydrogen. <\/p>\n The steel industry especially has been heavily reliant on coal with a requirement of 5 million tonnes of coal per annum. Less than 1% of renewable energy has traditionally been used in the steel making process. <\/p>\n In addition, traditionally 45 million tonnes of fossil fuels have been distributed via the port area in both trade and bunkering purposes, with less than 5% of sustainable fuels transhipped and less than 1% of sustainable fuels bunkered. <\/p>\n These processes of course need to be replaced by sustainable alternatives. <\/p>\n \u201cWe have to make the energy transition work so we have a business for the future,\u201d said Mr Delattre. <\/p>\n The decision to make no more coal shipments as of 2030 through the port has forced the industries dependent towards other markets and greener fuels. <\/p>\n \u201cIn the beginning industry was furious, but there is no choice, we all have to achieve the energy transition and this conscious decision had to be made.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cWe need to stay relevant as a port and difficult decisions had to be taken.\u201d <\/p>\n The port\u2019s focus is to continue to rapidly diversify its revenue model with non-fossil activities. In 2028, the plan is that 73% of total turnover will come from non-fossil activities. <\/p>\n Amsterdam is now looking to green hydrogen as its go-to way of replacing its previous heavy reliance on fossil fuels. <\/p>\n Its partnership with Gidara Energy and GoodFuels is looking to produce 100 kt of renewable methanol per year. <\/p>\n The plan is to convert 360 kt of waste per year into renewable fuel which can be used for the steel industry, maritime, road transport and aviation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Green corridors and the development of green value supply chains are central to the Port of Amsterdam\u2019s ambition to decarbonise its short sea and transhipment services.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,7],"tags":[296,294,297,298,71,295,293],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coastlink","category-news-coastlink","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-coastlink","tag-energy-transition","tag-green-corridors","tag-port-of-amsterdam","tag-short-sea-shipping","tag-transhipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}