North Sea Port and the Port of Gothenburg have signed an agreement to create a network of medium-sized European ports and work together on energy management and sustainability.
As disclosed, the two ports want to exchange knowledge between similar ports and investigate further cooperation between them. The partnership will be valid for five years.
Accordingly, the ports want to reinforce their commercial interests and support the flow of goods between the two ports, while sharing knowledge and good examples in the field of energy management in the port. This concerns the introduction of renewable energy sources, environmental management and sustainable port management. To this end, research into further digitisation will be carried out. What is more, the ports will exchange employees in the future.
Finally, the ports are also looking into whether they can jointly submit projects for European financing in the field of sustainability, energy transition, digitisation and the European transport network.
A collaboration between two medium-sized seaports is quite unusual. I look forward to strengthening our commercial interests to further embed employment in our ports and to establishing a network of similar European ports
…Daan Schalck, the North Sea Port CEO, said.
As informed, North Sea Port manages the 60-kilometre-long cross-border port area that extends from Vlissingen in the Netherlands on the North Sea, to Terneuzen and then to Ghent, 32 km inland in Belgium. In terms of cargo transhipment, it ranks tenth among the ports in Europe with 69 million tonnes. The Port of Gothenburg is the largest port in the Nordic region. One-third of Swedish foreign trade passes through the Port of Gothenburg as well as half of all container traffic.
In December 2021, the Swedish Energy Agency approved the partial funding of the collaborative project CinfraCap, bringing the region a step closer to a carbon capture infrastructure at the Port of Gothenburg.