Danish Ports

Freight transportation is the foundation of our society - we just don't think about it

By Jens Kirketerp Jensen, Managing Director, ADP EI and Chairman of Danish Rail Freight and Karina Lyngbak Sørensen, Business Policy Consultant, Danish Ports - published in Avisen Danmark Friday, June 30, 2023.07.05 Most of us would say that Denmark is a well-functioning society with a solid export economy, efficient production companies and plenty of goods on the shelves. However, it [...]...

Port of Odense and Fayard: collaboration expands with new 30-year agreement allowing for new investments in the future

Fayard A/S in action at the Port of Odense. Photo: Fayard A/S The major Danish shipyard Fayard is underlining its commitment to the Port of Odense with a new non-terminable 30-year agreement. The agreement ensures Fayard the best conditions for continued growth, while the Port of Odense can continue to work on future-proofing the port's capacity and infrastructure through [...].

Green Shipping in the North and Baltic Seas - Recommendations for Danish contribution towards 2030

Port of Frederikshavn: Record result in Port of Frederikshavn

The result for the year amounts to 66.003 tDKK, which is 61.638 tDKK more than the result for 2021. An increase in turnover of 46%, an increase in gross profit of 66% compared to 2021 and finally an increase in operating profit (after depreciation) of 207% compared to 2021. Depreciation has increased 160% in the same period. The result [...]

Port of Køge: New agreement on wind turbines blows the Køge area into the green transition

The Port of Køge will be central to the establishment of Aflandshage Wind Farm. In 2026, the Øresund region will receive green electricity from wind turbines at Aflandshage, which corresponds to the consumption of 300,000 households per year, and a new agreement means that the Port of Køge will provide space for, among other things, pre-assembly and unloading of the wind turbines. When the Øresund Region from 2026 will receive [...]...

Vejle Business Port: The port will be co2 neutral by 2029

A new strategic proposal from Vejle Erhvervshavn sets out far more ambitious climate goals than most companies and national targets. The port's board has decided that operations must be CO2 neutral as early as 2029. "We are already far ahead with a transition to more climate-friendly operations and now want to [...]...

Danish Ports: Very positive with new green partnership on ports

Led by Minister for Business Morten Bødskov, Minister for Transport Thomas Danielsen and Minister for Energy Lars Aagaard, the Danish government on Thursday established a new partnership on Danish commercial ports with a focus on green transition. The partnership is based on the government platform, which aims to attract investments to the Danish commercial ports, the Minister of Transport said at the press conference at Oceankaj at CMP [...].

German port sales to China may be stopped

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's controversial plan to sell part of the container terminal at the Port of Hamburg to China may now be blocked by German security authorities, according to the magazine Søfart. Germany's Federal Office for Information Security has now classified the port as "critical infrastructure", which means that the government in Berlin will have to reassess the entire sale and perhaps ultimately [...]