MAGPIE Smart Green Ports

sMArt Green Ports as Integrated Efficient multimodal hubs

Our project has the ambition to force a breakthrough in the supply and use of green energy carriers in transport to, from and within ports. We will create energy efficiencies and support developments that make green energy carriers available to the users. By demonstrating and implementing smart solutions in the realm of digitalization and automation, we will facilitate and contribute to the decarbonization of port related transport.

AMBITION

We want to shape the green ports of the future. MAGPIE’s ambition is to force a breakthrough in the supply and use of green energy carriers in transport to, from and within ports. We will create energy efficiencies and support developments that make green-energy carriers available to users. By demonstrating and implementing smart solutions in the realm of digitalization and automation, we will facilitate and contribute to the decarbonization of port-related transport.

DELIVERABLES

The MAGPIE partners will develop a Masterplan for European Green Ports; a roadmap thereto and a handbook to accelerate the development of sustainable maritime and inland European ports. The handbook will be based on the demonstrations within the MAGPIE project and will contain insights through research and other case studies. The handbook will also give guidance on how to move from planning to implementation, replication and scaling of the demonstrated solutions and results. This will apply to the different types, sizes, and geographical location of ports across Europe.

METHODOLOGY

The MAGPIE Project consists of ten work packages involving the testing and demonstration of technical and non-technological innovations. This work will be followed by the evaluation of the roll-out opportunities in our fellow ports. The aim is to show that these innovations will contribute to the greening of port operations and that they can be scaled in other ports across Europe.

WHY WE ACT?

To flatten the curve of climate change, urgent actions are needed

In 2019 the European Commission launched the European Green Deal strategy to overcome climate change challenges. Greening transport is one of the key objectives of the European Green Deal. Transport accounts for 25% of the EU’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The objective is to reduce the GHG emissions of transport by 90% by 2050.

In this context, seaports will play a major role in boosting the use of cleaner technologies, green energy carriers and logistics concepts in maritime transport, port operations and hinterland transport (road, rail, barge, and pipeline) to reduce GHG emissions.

The Port of Rotterdam, the largest seaport in Europe with many transport connections for all modes of transport, is frontrunner in the energy transition and has the vision to become a zero-emission port by 2050. Together with the fellow ports HAROPA, Sines and DeltaPort (which is an inland port) the Port of Rotterdam supports the European Green Deal sustainability goals.

Our project is carried out under the framework of call H2020-LC-GD-2020 entitled “Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: Research and innovation in support of the European Green Deal”. This call is placed under the responsibility of the fund Horizon 2020.

Granted public funding total amounts to 25 million €, for a period comprised between 1st October 2021 and 30th September 2026.