Danish Ports

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

By Jens Kirketerp Jensen, Managing Director, ADP EI and Chairman of Dansk Banegods and Karina Lyngbak Sørensen, Business Policy Consultant, Danske Havne - published in Avisen Danmark Friday, June 30, 2023.07.05 Most of us would say that Denmark has a well-functioning society with a solid export economy, efficient manufacturing companies and plenty of goods on the shelves. The [...]

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 large Danish shipyard Fayard is marking 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 Sea - Recommendations for Danish contribution towards 2030

Port of Frederikshavn: Record result in Port of Frederikshavn

The result for the year amounts to TSEK 66,003, which is TSEK 61,638 more than the result for 2021. An increase in revenue 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 has been noted. Depreciation has increased 160% in the same period. The result [...]

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

The Port of Køge will be central when Aflandshage Wind Farm is established. In 2026, the Øresund region will receive green power from wind turbines at Aflandshage, equivalent to the annual consumption of 300,000 households, and a new agreement means that the Port of Køge will provide space for pre-assembly and unloading of the wind turbines. When the Øresund region from 2026 will receive [...]

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

A new strategic plan from Vejle Erhvervshavn sets out far more ambitious climate goals than the ones you hear from most companies and national targets. The port's board of directors 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 [...]

Danish Ports: Very positive with new green partnership on ports

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

German port sale 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 [...].