ENERGY TRANSITION PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES FOR PORT OF ROTTERDAM

The port of Rotterdam is more affected by the energy transition than competitors such as Hamburg and Antwerp. This is due to the much higher volume of ores and coal.

‘The fact that Rotterdam as a port achieved relatively poor results in the first half of the year is partly due to the relatively favorable figures in the same period a year earlier,’ says Allard Castelein, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority.

In the short term, the Rotterdam energy transition will hit relatively hard because of the abrupt decline in coal transhipment, Castelein sees more opportunities for the future. ‘More use will be made of clean energy, such as wind at sea, clean electrodes, circular processes for waste. That will take several years and it will be many projects by many companies. But the complex sees many more opportunities than threats in that context of the energy transition. ‘ Although total transhipment decreased by 2.2 percent, container transhipment in the port of Rotterdam rose by more than 6 percent.

Source: Statistics Netherlands, Port of Rotterdam Authority www.portofrotterdam.com
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