(Stockholm / Sweden) – The operator of the Swedish deep-sea port Stockholm Norvik (“Ports of Stockholm”) is investing in a hydrogen filling station. The goal is to operate the vehicles used in the port without fossil fuels by 2025, says Chief Commercial Officer Johan Wallén.
Johan Wallén, CCO at Ports of Stockholm, and Benjamin Weinacht, Managing Director Hydrogen Ports at CMB Tech. © Port of Stockholm
In advance of the investment decision now announced, the port administration had already entered into a hydrogen cooperation with CMB Tech, part of the shipping and logistics group Compagnie Maritime Belge NV (CMB). In the initial phase, the port vehicles would be converted to run on green hydrogen. The first hydrogen-powered terminal truck is scheduled to enter service in the port of Stockholm in 2023. The partnership with CMB Tech is “fully in line with the ambitious environmental goals of the Stockholm ports, which want to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030,” explained Anna König Jerlmyr, Mayor of Stockholm, in June.
Active worldwide
CMB is involved in numerous hydrogen projects worldwide. The company opened in mid-2021 Antwerp, Belgium, near the “Port House” at the harbor there is a “multimodal hydrogen filling station” where ships as well as cars, trucks and buses can get the fuel.
In Namibia, CMB is involved, among other things, in a project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to convert locomotives from diesel to hydrogen, as well as in the construction of a hydrogen filling station in Namibia Walvis Bay on the Atlantic as well as the conversion of tugboats and port equipment from the port operator Namport for operation with hydrogen/diesel fuel technology.
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Stockholm Norvik harbor. © Ports of Stockholm / Per-Erik Adamsson
