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US military chooses another Danish port

Several Danish ports are central to NATO and the US military. Underlining the importance of the ports also for national security and the NATO alliance Aarhus Port will be visited in week 3 by the cargo ship "ARC Independence" from the US with 600 units of military equipment in the form of vehicles and containers. The equipment will be sent on to NATO operations in Eastern Europe. It is the first [...]

Danish Ports

12 January 2023 - Reading time 1 min

Green Transition & Sustainability

Vital Danish ports

Port of Esbjerg gets EU money for deepening "The Danish ports are important infrastructure. They are a key part of the green transition, not least when it comes to expanding the production of energy from offshore wind." This is how precisely Denmark's new Minister of Transport, Thomas Danielsen, puts the key role of Danish ports into words in his motivation for [...]

Danish Ports

22 December 2022 - Reading time 1 min

Infrastructure

Port of Hanstholm is again a hub for freight traffic: new route between Hanstholm and the Norwegian coast

After a long period of preparation, the launch of a freight route between Hanstholm and north-western Norway is now a reality. This follows the conclusion of an agreement between the Port of Hanstholm and the Norwegian shipping company Egil Ulvan AS, which will start regular shipping services to and from Hanstholm in the first week of 2023. The route's basic cargo is Danish-produced fish feed for Norwegian offshore [...]

Danish Ports

9 December 2022 - Reading time 3 min

Word of the week

Knob

Knots are the preferred indication of speed at sea, and are used synonymously with nautical miles. So if you hear a captain exclaim that his ship is doing five knots, it means that it is going five miles an hour. One nautical mile/knot is equal to 1.852 kilometres. It may sound silly to change the usual mileage from the second [...]

Danish Ports

6 December 2022 - Reading time 1 min

Green Transition & Sustainability

Port of Hirtshals to become hub for storage and offloading of CO2 from North Jutland biogas plants

There is enormous climate potential in the agreement that seven companies have just signed on the transport and storage of biogenic CO2 in North Jutland. The partners will initially transport captured CO2 from local biogas plants to the Port of Hirtshals, from where it will be shipped for storage in empty oil fields in the North Sea. The cooperation also involves investigating the possibility of establishing [...]

Danish Ports

2 December 2022 - Reading time 6 min

News

Too few men on deck: both shipping companies and ports lack manpower

This is a quote. The original story can be read at ShippingWatch here. The entire maritime sector is sailing full steam ahead towards a sustainable transformation of freight transport. The only problem is that the great ambitions are to some extent prevented from being realised. This is due to a lack of highly specialised manpower in the field of green transformation. There is [...]

Danish Ports

29 November 2022 - Reading time 1 min

Green Transition & Sustainability

Netavisen Altinget: EU bomb under Danish climate agreement

This is a quote. The original story can be read at Altinget here. Paradoxically, an agreement between the European Parliament and the member states could mean that the Danish climate targets of a 70% reduction are not enough, and that transport and agriculture will have to pay the price. Netavisen Altinget has asked the liberal think tank Cepos to calculate the consequences of an agreement [...]

Danish Ports

29 November 2022 - Reading time 1 min

Infrastructure

Tine Kirk i Altinget Transport: Den kommende regering skal have modet til at sikre vores kritiske infrastruktur

Det oprindelige indlæg kan læses her. En ny regering skal prioritere den nødvendige udbygning af dansk infrastruktur. Også når der lokalt protesteres. For krig og corona har vist os værdien af sikker lokal forsyning, skriver Tine Kirk. Jeg har flere ønsker til en kommende regering, men indledningsvist kunne jeg godt tænke mig, at regeringen og […]

Danish Ports

23. november 2022 - Reading time 4 min

News

A silver lining: supply crisis boosts uptake of supply-chain education

This is a quote. The original story can be read at MobilityWatch here. Nothing is so bad that it's not good for something. That saying seems apt in light of new figures from DTU: For the corona-induced supply crisis that has plagued us in recent years has significantly increased enrollment in the university's supply-chain education. According to the [...]

Danish Ports

22 November 2022 - Reading time 0 min

News

Green, Danish jobs secured in new wind deal

This is a quote. The original story can be read at Sydnyt.dk here. If anyone still doubted that green transition, growth and the preservation of Danish jobs can go hand in hand, their misgivings are now put to rest. For US-owned wind turbine manufacturer Valmont SM, based in the municipality of Aabenraa and [...]

Danish Ports

18 November 2022 - Reading time 0 min
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