{"id":3437,"date":"2023-06-21T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2023\/06\/21\/canadian-ports-biofuel-case-study\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:04:40","slug":"canadian-ports-biofuel-case-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/canadian-ports-biofuel-case-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian ports biofuel case study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A first-of-its-kind study, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arup.com\/perspectives\/publications\/research\/section\/canadian-green-shipping-corridors-preliminary-assessment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Canadian Green Shipping Corridor Assessment<\/a>, by sustainable development consultancy Arup in tandem with Lloyd\u2019s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub, has highlighted the role ports play in creating green shipping corridors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada has the mindset, talent, and renewable energy landscape to build a coalition that demonstrates zero-emission shipping,\u201d said Ginger Garte, environmental and sustainability director, Americas, Lloyd\u2019s Register, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must now unite stakeholders across the entire port supply chain with green shipping corridors, acting as catalysts to eliminate challenges and develop resilient infrastructure blueprints that optimise the co-benefits of Canada\u2019s unique geology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study, commissioned by marine conservation charity, Oceans North, created examples of illustrative fuel production pathways for three Canadian ports: Vancouver, Prince Rupert, and Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>The potential development of low and zero-emission fuel uptake across different scenarios was analysed by the LR Maritime Decarbonisation Hub to estimate the size, type and cost of the infrastructure required.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that a 200ktpa green methanol plant in the Port of Vancouver in British Columbia has the capacity to meet 2040 energy demands.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that a carbon capture and storage enabled ammonia plant would be able to meet 2040 energy demands in the Port of Prince Rupert and that an investment of up to CAN$500m at the Port of Halifax could allow it to become a central hub for distributing ammonia-based fuel from production facilities elsewhere in Nova Scotia.A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada is set to explore options for low and zero emissions fuel production and uptake at three key ports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,33,8],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-americas-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3439,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/3439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}