Isabelle Ryckbost

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

ENERGY & TECHNOLOGY GREENPORT

If ports were to have a wish list for Christmas last December, I think that quite some ports would have had grid connection and grid capacity high on their list.

5th February 2026

EXCLUSIVE: Will Europe’s ports have to queue for grid?

5th February 2026

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The pile of crisis files on the EU Commission’s President von der Leyen’s desk is every year getting higher: Climate, covid, energy, the war in Ukraine, the (re)taking office of the Trump administration with all the geo-economic and geopolitical turmoil…

30th September 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Building a resilient Europe: No pay, no cure?

30th September 2025

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

If all goes well, the EU’s new Port Strategy should give ports the tools they need to play their role in contributing to Europe’s multifaceted ambitions.  

18th August 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Ports key to Europe’s multifaceted ambitions

18th August 2025

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

In this article, Isabelle Ryckbost, secretary general, ESPO, discusses how ports are collaborating to realise the green transition.

29th July 2024

EXCLUSIVE: The green transition forces more cooperation

29th July 2024

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

In 2018, we commissioned an extensive study looking into the investment needs and financing challenges of European Ports, writes Isabelle Ryckbost, secretary general, European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) and Dr Peter de Langen

10th June 2024

EXCLUSIVE: European ports €80 billion investment need

10th June 2024

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

The European Commission has put forward a new proposal for counting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of freight and passenger transport, writes Isabelle Ryckbost, secretary general, ESPO.

13th December 2023

Unifying the way we all count emissions

13th December 2023

INSIGHT & OPINION

INSIGHT & OPINION

Isabelle Ryckbost, secretary general, ESPO, discusses the impact the EU’s Nature Restoration law could have on port development

21st June 2023

The battle for the space to get greener

21st June 2023

EUROPE GREENPORT

EUROPE GREENPORT

Europe has been focusing on its Green Deal ambition to make it the first net zero continent and this includes concrete green measures as defined in the Fit for 55 package.

3rd May 2023

Ports in the race to net-zero

3rd May 2023

INSIGHT & OPINION GREENPORT

INSIGHT & OPINION GREENPORT

How do you start a new year with new intentions, ambitions and strategies in a world full of uncertainties?

19th January 2023

Setting course for a new year

19th January 2023

INSIGHT & OPINION GREENPORT

INSIGHT & OPINION GREENPORT

Since the beginning of 2020 we are experiencing world crises most of us would have considered before as unrealistic and never to happen again.

7th December 2022

Never waste a good crisis

7th December 2022

INSIGHT & OPINION GREENPORT

INSIGHT & OPINION GREENPORT

As part of the Fit for 55-package published in July last year, the Commission issued a proposal to include emissions from maritime in the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS).

15th June 2022

Emission trading system – will it be effective?

15th June 2022