Baltic Sea ports to study onshore power infrastructure

These studies will focus on developing onshore electrical supply infrastructure to reduce ship emissions.

PHOTO: A cruise ship in Stockholm. Ports of Stockholm

“Together with the other Baltic Sea ports, we want to speed up and assure a more rapid development of onshore power connections for vessels at the quayside in the Baltic Sea region. This will result in greater ability to meet our own and EU environmental goals,” chair of the board of Ports of Stockholm Clara Lindblom says.

The Swedish government has allowed Ports of Stockholm to jointly apply for a grant from the EU Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) to conduct these studies. CEF is a European Union fund that focuses on investments in the areas of transport, digital and energy.

Ports of Stockholm will submit a joint application for the EU grant together with the ports of Aarhus, Klaipeda, Ventspils, Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn, Gdynia and Hamburg.

The project is expected to commence in July 2023 and run until July 2025.

By Shilpa Sharma

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