Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center to develop green European shipping corridors

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping partnered with port authorities in Rotterdam, Hamburg, Gdynia, Roenne and Tallinn to establish a European Green Corridor Network.

PHOTO: Aerial view of the Europoort area in the Port of Rotterdam. Getty Images

With this collaboration Mærsk Mc-Kinney intends to demonstrate that alternative bunker fuel supply chains are commercially viable and in support of first movers. Similar corridors can be rolled out to other regions in time, it says.

A pre-feasibility study will be conducted to identify potential routes, vessel types and fuels with decarbonisation which will be applied in these green corridors.

Mærsk will then assess the technical and regulatory viability of the chosen routes.

The routes, or green corridors, will subequently be rolled out across Northern Europe and in the Baltic Sea region.

The Port of Rotterdam's chief executive Allard Castelein said it is essential that shipping lines take initiative to decarbonise their businesses. Ports will then assist them, he says, by for example making sure the right bunker infrastructure and regulations are in place in time.