Green port funding

The consortium of 45 companies in the MAGPIE: sMArt Green Ports project, headed up by the Port of Rotterdam, will use the grant to execute ten pilot projects that focus on sustainable and smart logistics at ports.

Project partners will also design and implement several digitalisation and automation solutions in the context of energy transition.

Power transition

The MAGPIE: sMArt Green Ports project aims to help the industry transition to clean power by testing alternative fuels in practice.

A number of renewable fuels and energy carriers are currently being developed further, including green hydrogen, large electric batteries, ammonia and bio-LNG.

Each of these has its own advantages and challenges, with one option seeming more suited to shipping, another to applications within the port or transport to destinations in the hinterland. Some links in the chain from production to consumption have already been tested; others have not.

The consortium will also be exploring how best to encourage companies to raise the sustainability of their logistics processes.

It’s also developing a master plan that sets out how transport in, to and from the ports can be made carbon-free by 2050 and what needs to be done in this before 2030 and 2040.

The results of the various pilot projects and studies will be shared with other European ports, knowledge institutes and companies.

The project comes out of a collaboration between the port authorities of Rotterdam, DeltaPort, HAROPA PORT and Sines, in partnership with ten research institutes and over 30 companies.