UK ports launch country-wide decarbonisation plan

UK port operator Associated British Ports (ABP) has unveiled its £2 billion ($2.12 billion) plan to decarbonise operations across 21 ports by 2040.

PHOTO: ABP chief executive Henrik Lundgaard Pedersen launches Ready for Tomorrow plan. ABP

Dubbed as “Ready for Tomorrow,” the plan will be focused on areas of “net Zero, air quality, biodiversity, waste and water management.” It embraces the fact that ports “have a vital and unique enabling role” in decarbonisation efforts and seeks to “deliver major emissions reduction and sustainability improvements.”

Manufacturing plants for wind power components in Humber and East Anglia come under the ambit of the plan. Its portfolio of future projects include development of “floating offshore wind (including a major integration port hub centred on Port Talbot), hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, industrial decarbonisation and alternative fuels.”

These projects will primarily be developed across South Wales, the Solent, Humber and East Anglia.

“Decarbonising ports is not only important in itself, but it is also essential to support the decarbonisation of other key parts of the economy such as energy generation, shipping and heavy industries like steel,” said Nick Molho, executive director of the Aldersgate Group, a UK-based NGO and member of ABP.

By Tuhin Roy

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