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New European green corridors network with participation of the Danish Port of Rønne launched

On March 30, 2022, several European ports in the Northern Europe and Baltic Sea announced an ambitious partnership with the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping.
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By Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark | [email protected]
30 March 2022

The partnering ports consists of first-movers within the green agenda enbling large container vessels to fuel successfully along an important maritime corridor. The real climate action partnership will become the substructure of the new European Green Corridors Network.

“This is a vital step towards accelerating the decarbonization of the shipping industry and meeting the EU’s 2030 climate ambitions. Developing green corridors are instrumental in activating industry first-movers across the value chain, and this project can be used as industry references to develop blueprints for new business models and identify the maritime industry’s inter-dependencies.”
Bo Cerup-SimonsenCEO of the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping
The project will demonstrate the early commercialisation of alternative fuel supply chains and provide a roadmap to scaling the supply chains and create a blueprint for rolling out green corridors in other locations. Industry leaders play a critical role in ensuring that laboratory research is successfully matured to scalable solutions matching the needs of industry. At the same time, new legislation will be required to enable the transition towards decarbonization.

ABOUT THE MÆRSK MC-KINNEY MØLLER CENTER FOR ZERO CARBON SHIPPING 

  • The Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping is a not-for-profit, independent research and development center working across the energy and shipping sectors with representatives within industry, academia etc.
  • The Center explores viable decarbonisation pathways, facilitates the development and implementation of new energy technologies; builds confidence in new concepts and their supply chains; and accelerates the transition by defining and maturing viable strategic pathways to the required systemic change.
  • Corporate Partners to the Center include: Alfa Laval, American Bureau of Shipping, A.P. Moller-Maersk, bp, Cargill, Haldor Topsoe, MAN Energy Solutions, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsui, NORDEN, NYK Line, Seaspan Corporation, Siemens Energy, Stolt Tankers, Sumitomo Corporation, Swire Group, TotalEnergies, DP World, and V.Group.
  • The Center is placed in Copenhagen but works with partners globally.

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