European ports join forces to create hydrogen corridors

The corridor, which will be developed with together with the Energy Agency of the Basque Government (EVE), Petronor, SkyNRG, Evos Amsterdam and Zenith Energy Terminals, will focus on a bilateral cooperation between the two ports. 

“The Port of Amsterdam plays a crucial role in the energy transition. The recently awarded status of Hydrogen Valley to the broader Amsterdam area highlights the pace of development in this region,” said Dorine Bosman, chief investment officer at Port of Amsterdam.

”Port of Amsterdam views green hydrogen and e-fuels as major components of the port of the future. The port of Bilbao and Petronor are natural fits for setting up a green hydrogen corridor. The formation of such intra-European corridors goes a long way in propelling the European Union as a whole to its new energy future.”

Green ambitions

A MoU signed by the parties will see them team up to develop a renewable hydrogen supply chain, focusing on production in the Basque Country and export to the Netherlands and the European hinterland through the Port of Amsterdam.

This fits with the wider Basque Hydrogen Strategy, developed by EVE, which is aimed at both local usage and international markets and the Dutch government’s stimulation of the production, import and use of hydrogen.

The Port of Bilbao is part of the Basque Hydrogen Corridor, a collaboration spearheaded by Petronor and Repsol to decarbonise the energy, industrial, residential and mobility sectors.

Petronor is committed to developing a broad range of renewable fuels and to creating a hub in Bilbao that will compose a synthetic fuels plant and an urban waste processing project. Thus, Petronor and Repsol, together with EVE and other companies, are developing the construction of electrolysers for the production of renewable hydrogen, with a total capacity of 113 MW and a demonstration plant for the production of hydrogen-based e-fuels, the first synthetic fuel plaint in Spain.

Port of Amsterdam meanwhile is strongly committed to developing green hydrogen facilities within its port area, as well as establishing import corridors for green hydrogen and its derivatives.

One of the prominent industrial sectors supplied by the port of Amsterdam is the aviation industry. Zenith Energy Terminals and Evos Amsterdam are the operators of some of the most prominent blending and storage terminals in the port. Zenith Energy Terminals is developing a liquid hydrogen supply chain, while Evos Amsterdam is working on a liquid organic hydrogen carrier supply chain. 

The corridor will not only facilitate the trade of renewable hydrogen and e-fuels, but it will also foster the exchange of knowledge and expertise between the parties involved.