Green Transition & Sustainability

Green Transition & Sustainability
Port of Grenaa presents 2025 strategy: Partnership port for a green world
With the new 2025 strategy, the Port of Grenaa continues with a strong focus on the port's core segments while integrating sustainability and CSR into the port's business with the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals as a strategic framework. This means, among other things, that the port introduces a new green core segment Energy & Innovation and that procurement is channeled in a more sustainable direction. With the new [...]

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The coast is ready for a new heliport in Thorsminde
Holstebro Municipality has worked intensively for a heliport in Thorsminde, which aims to become the service port for the future Thor Offshore Wind Farm. Now the green light has been given for the Thor heliport. Today, servicing of offshore wind turbines is done from both the water and from the air. A heliport, or landing pad for helicopters, is therefore a central function at the service port of the future. [...]

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LINDØ port of ODENSE enters into biodiesel pilot scheme with Emmelev
Now the first vehicles at Lindø Port of Odense have been refueled with pure climate-friendly biodiesel - for us, there is a perspective in being able to roll out more biodiesel, says CEO Carsten Aa. Lindø Port of Odense gets power from three large wind turbines on the harbor area, and the next step is biodiesel in the tank, said CEO Carsten Aa. [...]

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Meet the jury behind Danish Ports' new sustainability award
When Minister of Transport Benny Engelbrecht announces the winner of the 2020 Danish Ports Sustainability Award on April 22nd - from the podium at the major port conference in Aalborg - there will be a thorough work from some of the industry's most competent forces behind it. Meet the jury that will select the winner of the sustainability award here. The jury consists of Anne H. Steffensen, who is [...]

Green Transition & Sustainability
Danish Ports establishes new sustainability award
When Danish Ports opens the doors to the major port conference in Aalborg on April 22-23, it will be with green transition as the central theme of the conference. And as something completely new, the trade organization is now introducing a special sustainability award to be presented to a port that has made a special effort for the green transition in the past year. When [...]

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Port of Kolding invests in new green recycling facility
The Port of Kolding is becoming an increasingly green port, and now the port is investing DKK 12 million in a new state-of-the-art metal recycling facility. This will strengthen the port's position as one of the leading ports in metal recycling. In addition, the facility will virtually eliminate noise and dust nuisance from and [...].

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New wind turbines at the harbor: Hirtshals has become electricity positive
Just over a month after the four wind turbines at the East Harbor in Hirtshals were put into operation, the first positive indications show Hirtshals as an electricity-positive energy city. The four wind turbines were put into operation on December 20 last year, and already now there have been several days where the electricity production from the four wind turbines exceeds the electricity consumption [...].

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Reusing buoys can save millions for Danish ports
The Port of Nakskov has come up with a really profitable and environmentally friendly idea that can save millions of kroner in Danish ports. They reuse their red sea markings, which in practice are giant buoys at a cost of up to DKK 70,000. This is according to DR Zealand. After a handful of years, the red buoys become so bleached by the sun that [...].

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New ferry route is better for both the environment and congestion
Good news with a green angle: A new ferry route has just opened between the Port of Grenaa A/S | Port of Grenaa and Halmstad in Sweden, and expectations for the new route are already high - both in Denmark and Sweden. This is according to TV2 Østjylland. The freight forwarding company FREJA Transport & Logistics in Stilling, which drives trucks [...]...