{"id":5876,"date":"2025-11-20T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/11\/20\/a-partnership-for-hydrogen-supply-into-europe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:19:38","slug":"a-partnership-for-hydrogen-supply-into-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/a-partnership-for-hydrogen-supply-into-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"A partnership for hydrogen supply into Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Namibian Ports Authority (Namport), Port of Rotterdam and the European Union (EU) have strengthened their collaboration as they move ahead with designing a Green Minerals Terminal at the Angra Point Hydrogen Hub.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows the EU\u2013Namibia Memorandum of Understanding on green hydrogen and critical minerals and deepens existing collaboration on building a hydrogen hub at the Port of L\u00fcderitz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A global gateway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The initiative aligns with the EU\u2019s Global Gateway strategy, aimed at accelerating sustainable infrastructure investment to support the energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia has already begun exporting green iron this year and continues to supply key minerals, including manganese, lithium and graphite, which are essential for global clean energy technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are underway to increase local processing, strengthening the country\u2019s role within the international supply chain for renewable and alternative fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Global Gateway funding will assist in designing a multi-user terminal capable of handling processed mineral exports and a broader mix of cargo, reinforcing Namibia\u2019s position in emerging clean energy markets.<\/p>\n<p>This project represents a pivotal stage in developing integrated green hydrogen and critical materials value chains linking Namibia with northwestern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Namport-Port of Rotterdam partnership is central to Namibia\u2019s hydrogen export ambitions, helping position Namport as a strategic enabler of the global energy transition and a future leader in sub-Saharan Africa\u2019s clean energy logistics sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is advancing its global role in alternative fuels through a new European-backed critical materials terminal at the Port of L\u00fcderitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,7],"tags":[40,670,2375,2374,539,2373,152,342],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-greenport","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-energy-transition","tag-geen-hydrogen","tag-namibia-port-authority","tag-port-infrastructure","tag-port-of-luderitz","tag-port-of-rotterdam","tag-supply-chain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876","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=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}