{"id":12204,"date":"2026-09-03T07:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/?p=12204"},"modified":"2026-09-03T07:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T06:47:50","slug":"webinar-previews-greenport-congress-decarbonisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/greenport-congress-greenport\/webinar-previews-greenport-congress-decarbonisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar previews GreenPort Congress decarbonisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GreenPort Congress is bringing together port, technology, policy and finance leaders for a live online discussion examining how ports can deliver decarbonisation goals while protecting operational performance and commercial viability.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigmarker.com\/mercator-media\/inside-greenport-congress-2026\">free webinar<\/a>, running\u00a0Monday 7 September from 15:00\u201315:45 BST, will explore the practical realities of sustainable investment, including infrastructure readiness, changing energy demands, commercial risks and opportunities, future fuels, electrification and shore power.<\/p>\n<p>The session will also consider how environmental priorities, including water-quality improvements, can be integrated into operational decision-making, alongside lessons from ports navigating regulatory, technical and financial change.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers are\u00a0Mike Sellers, port director, Portsmouth International Port; Tim Verhoeven, senior policy advisor \u2013 Sustainable Development, ESPO; Ekaitz L\u00f3pez Amurrio, chief financial officer and European funds coordinator, Bilbao Port; Chris Poyner, head of Shore Power, ABB Marine and Ports, and board member, EOPSA; and Dr Mark van der Veen, director, Graduate School of Business, Amsterdam Business School.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion will preview key themes for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/\">GreenPort Congress 2026<\/a>, taking place at Portsmouth International Port from\u00a07\u20139 October 2026, where the challenges and opportunities surrounding sustainable port investment will be explored in greater depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port leaders will examine how decarbonisation investment can strengthen resilience, efficiency and long-term commercial performance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[40,37,849,1823],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-12204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenport-congress-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-decarbonisation","tag-greenport-congress","tag-shorepower"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12206,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12204\/revisions\/12206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12204"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=12204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}