Home Ports & Infrastructure Denmark’s Port Esbjerg bolsters offshore wind, ammonia, and hydrogen ties with Korea’s Ulsan port
September 5, 2024,
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Ajsa Habibic
Denmark’s Port Esbjerg and Korea’s Port of Ulsan agree with fashioned a strategic partnership to power innovation and sustainability in the maritime change by each and each parties’ abilities in dealing with hydrogen and ammonia as well to offshore wind initiatives.
Port Esbjerg printed the collaboration by social media, declaring that the port sees fundamental opportunities to leverage Ulsan’s abilities in dealing with hydrogen and ammonia.
Likewise, Ulsan sees nice skill in partnering with Port Esbjerg as it has been designated as Korea’s installation port for offshore wind initiatives.
Located by the North Sea, the Port of Esbjerg is anticipated to play a central role in the enlargement of offshore wind, the place 134 GW is planned to be established by 2030 and 300 GW by 2050.
In 2023, the Danish port signed a cooperation agreement with PensionDanmark under which this will doubtless per chance presumably receive DKK 5.8 billion (about €779 million) for the constructing of facilities for the manufacturing of offshore wind generators.
Besides, round €94 million became as soon as earmarked for terminals for dealing with Energy-to-X and CCS, and round €67 million is anticipated to be invested in the improvement of Port of Esbjerg as a multi-modal hub.
The funding will additionally scramble in direction of the improvement of flex terminals, logistics properties, and facilities for inexperienced fuels.
On the opposite hand, Ulsan Port is working on becoming a low-carbon vitality hub and supporting methanol-fueled ships under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the global classification society Korean Register (KR).
Besides, the port plans to form a sparkling hydrogen and ammonia terminal at Ulsan Contemporary Port by 2030 to retailer ammonia to provide and provide hydrogen.
The brand new collaboration comes on the abet of a recent search the recommendation of with by a Danish delegation, including representatives from Port Esbjerg, Mayor Jesper Frost Rasmussen of Esbjerg Municipality, and officials from the Royal Danish Embassy in Seoul, to Ulsan the place loads of Danish maritime corporations are already effectively-represented.
