{"id":4669,"date":"2008-04-28T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2008\/04\/28\/cold-ironing-for-inland-vessels-part-of-the-clean-air-plan-of-port-of-rotterdam\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:41:30","slug":"cold-ironing-for-inland-vessels-part-of-the-clean-air-plan-of-port-of-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2008\/04\/28\/cold-ironing-for-inland-vessels-part-of-the-clean-air-plan-of-port-of-rotterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold ironing for inland vessels \u2013 part of the clean air plan of Port of Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis system provides 380 volts, 63 ampere energy just for 25 euro cents for one kilowatt per hour. I discussed with the shippers about the system and they were very happy with it. My next step is to talk through about the shore-side electricity with other ports in the Netherlands and to make sure that we would have the same connections and paying system in the future\u201d, &#8211; says Prinssen. According to the 2004 case study \u2018Shore-side Electricity for ships in Ports\u2019 of North Sea Commission, shore-side electricity connection can effectively reduce air pollutant emissions and noise from vessels in ports, thus providing environmental and health benefits. Maurits Prinssen at the GreenPort\/EcoPorts 2008 conference will be speaking about the environmental indexing of ships on Wednesday 27 February, Session B \u2018Air Quality in Port Areas\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018cold ironing\u2019, part of the clean air plan, is successfully adapted in the Port of Rotterdam. Maurits Prinssen, the Project Manager at the Department of Port Planning &amp; Development\/ Shipping of Port of Rotterdam explains the working principles of the \u2018cold ironing\u2019 system for inland ships, installed in the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669","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=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}