Danish engineering company PowerCon has been selected to install shore power in the Cruise Port Rotterdam.

PHOTO: Rotterdam’s alderman Robert Simons, chief operating officer Boudewijn Siemons and PowerCon partner Peter Castberg Knudsen at the deal signing (left to right). Port of Rotterdam

According to estimates from the Cruise Port Rotterdam authority, more than 75% of cruise ships calling Rotterdam will use shore power by 2025. By then, the port expects to complete all shore power installations.

This will place Cruise Port Rotterdam ahead of the EU's proposed FuelEU Maritime regulation, which mandates container ships and passenger ships to connect to shore power when at berth for more than two hours in EU ports by 2030.

The use of shore power “reduces CO2, nitrogen and particulate matter emissions,” Port of Rotterdam Authority says.

The Port Authority along with the Rotterdam municipality and the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management will finance the project, which has an estimated cost of €15 million (around $16 million).

Shore power or “cold ironing” has been on the rise across port operators and ship operators in the Netherlands.

Among shore power developments in the country, last month, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure allocated €140 million ($151 million) to install shore power across the country’s ports and pledged another €40 million ($43 million) from a climate fund, while Dutch engineering firm Royal Roos started providing shore power in Rotterdam.

By Tuhin Roy

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