Green corridor planned between Gothenburg and Rotterdam

As part of the Green Corridor initiative, the ports will establish a common framework for cooperation to stimulate the use of new alternative fuels.

The Green Corridor initiative is also supported by the Clydebank Declaration signed by both Sweden and the Netherlands at COP26, stating that countries shall promote the climate transition of the shipping industry by supporting and encouraging green shipping corridors.

The parties intend to connect the Green Corridor between Gothenburg and Rotterdam to a larger network of deep-sea corridors, including the European Green Corridors Network launched in March this year by the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero-Carbon Shipping, for which the Port of Gothenburg recently became mission ambassador. Rotterdam recently also launched a large Green Corridor initiative with the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore.

Both ports are already actively involved in the development of more sustainable fuels for shipping. Port of Gothenburg facilitates the bunkering of methanol for RoPax ferries on a smaller scale since 2015, and published general methanol operating regulations for ship-to-ship bunkering on a larger scale earlier in the year. The Port of Rotterdam launched the world’s first barge-to-ship methanol bunkering operation in May 2021.