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 is introducing a new green core segment Energy & Innovation and that procurement is being channeled in a more sustainable direction. With the new [...]

The coast is ready for a new heliport in Thorsminde

Holstebro Municipality has worked intensively for a heliport in Thorsminde, which aims to become a service port for the future Thor Offshore Wind Farm. Now the green light has been given for Thor's heliport. Today, offshore wind turbines are serviced both from the water and from the air. A heliport, or landing site for helicopters, is therefore a central function at the future service port. [...]

Invitation to shore power conference at Christiansborg on September 18

LINDØ port of ODENSE enters into biodiesel pilot scheme with Emmelev

The first vehicles at Lindø Port of Odense are now refueled with clean, 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 is powered by three large wind turbines on the harbor area, and the next step is biodiesel in the tank, said CEO Carsten Aa. [...]

Meet the jury behind Danish Ports' new sustainability award

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

Danish Ports creates new sustainability award

When Danish Ports opens the doors to the major port conference in Aalborg on April 22-23, green transition will be the central theme of the conference. And as something completely new, the industry 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 [...]

Port of Kolding invests in new green recycling plant

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

New wind turbines at the harbor: Hirtshals has become electricity-positive

A little over a month after the four wind turbines at Østhavnen 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 there have been several days where the electricity production from the four wind turbines exceeds the electricity consumption [...]

Reusing buoys can save Danish ports millions

The Port of Nakskov has come up with a very profitable and environmentally friendly idea that could save Danish ports millions of kroner. 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 faded by the sun that [...]

New ferry route is better for the environment and congestion

Good news with a green angle: A new ferry route has just opened between the 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 near Stilling, which drives trucks to [...]