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Green Transition & Sustainability

World first: Port of Esbjerg develops solution that triples offshore wind capacity without expanding port

The Port of Esbjerg is the first wind port in the world to develop a so-called digital twin that can calculate efficient methods for offshore wind discharge. The digital tool will have a dramatic effect on the port's wind capacity, as Esbjerg Port will be able to triple the annual amount of offshore wind shipped from 1.5 GW to 4.5 GW. "It [...]

Danish Ports

16 January 2023 - Reading time 3 min

News

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

Infrastructure

SME government to secure Danish critical infrastructure

Danske Havnes director Tine Kirk wrote this column in the daily newspaper Børsen on 29 December. The new government must have the courage to prioritise the necessary expansion of Danish infrastructure and, unlike Germany, which has sold part of the Port of Hamburg to the Chinese, keep it in Danish hands. It is positive that investments in ports are [...]

Danish Ports

11 January 2023 - Reading time 3 min

News

Debate | Let's bring business development in Danish ports up to European standards

Member of the European Parliament for the Conservatives, Pernille Weiss, and CEO of Port of Aalborg, Kristian Thulesen Dahl, writes in the daily newspaper Børsen about the Port of Aalborg as an inland port: Sometimes the legislation is in the way of development. This is felt by Port of Aalborg, which is Denmark's largest inland port. The port has a lot in common with the other inland ports in Europe, [...]

Danish Ports

11 January 2023 - Reading time 3 min

Landstream & Cruise

Provincial ports get cruise boom

If the estimates hold, the eight cruise ports outside Copenhagen will receive more than 430,000 cruise tourists in 2023.This is a new record Aarhus, Skagen, Aalborg, Fredericia, Kalundborg, Hundested, Helsingør and Rønne will be visited by 230 cruise ships in 2023 and it is estimated that about 430,000 happy tourists. Wonderful Copenhagen and Avisen Danmark report. That's more than [...]

Danish Ports

4 January 2023 - Reading time 0 min

News

Ultranav invests in Port-Safety and efforts to save more lives

Port-Safety has secured an investment from Ultranav to grow the business and expand efforts for improved maritime security. Together with the investment from Ultranav, additional funding from the Growth Fund has been secured. Per Lange from Ultranav joins as the new Chairman of the Board. He says: "Port-Safety has developed a unique and patented product that can make a real difference in [...]

Danish Ports

4 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

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
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