The OPS installation positions Rotterdam ahead of the European law requiring shore power use in ports by 2030.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud and delighted that the shore power installation has been put into operation,\u201d said Boudewijn Siemons, CEO of Port of Rotterdam Authority.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter an intensive construction period, we are taking an important new step in making the port of Rotterdam and the city more sustainable. Shore power for cruise ships is a crucial and necessary part of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of a kind<\/strong><\/p>\n Developed by Danish company PowerCon alongside the Port of Rotterdam Authority and other key partners, the shore power installation is one of a kind.<\/p>\n It involved installing a separate 1.5-kilometre sustainable electricity grid connection from Maashaven to Wilhelminakade.<\/p>\n A 230-metre-long cable duct at the quay enables flexible connection points for ships and an innovative support vehicle helps ensure seamless power transfer.<\/p>\n The cooling system of the shore power installation, like the cooling system of the cruise terminal, is cooled using water from the river Maas.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a project which was carried out over a period of 22 months while the cruise terminal was operational and cruise ships were docking at the quay on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n Cruise Port Shore Power aims to connect 75% of cruise ships in Rotterdam to shore power within the first year, cutting CO2, nitrogen and particulate emissions, while significantly reducing noise pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rotterdam has taken a major step in port electrification with the commissioning of its innovative onshore shore power installation, reducing emissions and noise from docked cruise ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,34],"tags":[296,120,152,179,48],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cruise-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-cruise","tag-europe","tag-port-of-rotterdam","tag-shore-power","tag-shorepower-electrification"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","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=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}