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Hub for green transition

Danish ports are central to the green transition in the Blue Denmark and the transport sector as a whole. 

Ports are the hub where sea, road and rail meet. We need to use less energy for transportation in general and use new fuels. The sea must therefore replace road transportation when it is most climate-friendly. Ports are hubs for Denmark's wind turbine adventure and suppliers of infrastructure for ships. Ports are also increasingly becoming modern industrial clusters that bring together the business areas that Denmark is leading in and that matter most in the green transition. Commercial ports therefore also play an important role in the green transition.

The Danish ports are at the forefront and are the first in Europe to committed as an industry to work with the the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and concrete objectives for the green transition in ports.  

  • Focus area for an emission-free port: Danish ports are working towards being emission-free by 2030. The ports must ensure that the port's machinery does not use fossil fuels, that the port's own energy consumption is based on renewable energy and that the port becomes CO2 neutral.   
  • Action area for the circular economy: Ports must ensure that the port's own waste is recycled and support the recycling of waste received from ships as far as possible. The aim is that at least 90 percent of all waste produced and received by the port will be recycled by 2030.  
  • Focus area for green behavior among customers: In dialogue with their customers, the ports will ensure that they can create good framework conditions that support customers' green behavior. Among other things, the ports must establish relevant energy infrastructure at and adjacent to the ports, they must differentiate the charges for ship calls in relation to how green the ships are and provide the opportunity for green connection for the ships received at the jetty.  

If you want to know more, you can read more in our 2021 Green Business Ports report.

In the brochure below you can read about Port Denmark's green vision.

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Offshore wind

Denmark has a unique unique opportunity for an exportadventure in offshore wind.

Between 20 and 30 Danish ports are involved in wind. Danish hports have been responsible for shipping more than 80 percent of Europe's Europe's existing offshore wind capacity. The EU Commission has previously estimated that the capacity of offshore wind at least 20-fold if the goal of a climate-neutral Europe is to be achieved by 2050. Oanish knowledge about offshore wind is already in demand around around the world.

Thehere is great potential potential for future jobs in offshore wind.

Then Danish wind industry employs i today 33,000 jobs. Cautious fprojections show, that 20,000 new Danish jobs in 2030 will be based on windenergy. Furthermore, the gradual replacement of end-of-life wind turbines creates more activity in Danish ports in the form of sustainable decommissioning tasks.

Investments in infrastructure in and around the havels is necessary to be ready for the the offshore wind industry of the future.

The giant wind turbines we will see at sea in the coming years will be more than 320 meters tall and transporting them over the road network will create additional congestion. Offshore wind turbines can be produced at the the port and then shipped out and installed in the offshore wind farms - but this requires investments in infrastructure in and around the ports. Investments must be made heavily in Danish ports if we are to keep up with development and jobs are not to be lost abroad. The ports are ready for this - but public investments are also necessary.