Viking Line partners Nordic ports to develop green shipping corridor by 2035

Finnish shipping company Viking Line is collaborating with the Ports of Stockholm and Port of Turku to establish a green shipping corridor between Finland's Turku and Sweden's Stockholm by 2035.

PHOTO: Port of Turku in Finland. Getty Images

Viking Line stated that this initiative, endorsed by the governments of Sweden and Finland on 6 February, will meet the criteria to be classified as a "green maritime corridor under the Clydebank Declaration."

Green Corridors are maritime routes that actively show the use of low- and zero-emission lifecycle fuels, aiming to attain zero-emissions. These corridors function as collaborative initiatives involving various stakeholders, working to actualise the decarbonisation of a shipping route.

Viking Line has not yet provided a decarbonisation roadmap for the upcoming green corridor. Additionally, it remains to be seen which alternative marine fuels will be available within the corridor.

Other partners in the green corridor project include members of the ongoing Decatrip project, involving Finnish shipbuilding company Rauma Marine Constructions, Åbo Akademi University in Turku and Finnish electric charger manufacturer Kempower.

The company can expand the partnership to bring in other key maritime stakeholders, including goods owners and freight forwarders, it said.

“Over the course of the project, the parties will gradually reduce their carbon dioxide [CO2] emissions and work for a 100% carbon-neutral corridor,” Viking Line said.

The Port of Turku has previously signed a climate contract in 2023 to make the city carbon-neutral by 2029, merely five years from now.

“That is a goal we are working systematically to achieve, so this memorandum to develop a green transport corridor between Turku and Stockholm is a natural step for us,” said Erik Söderholm, managing director of the Port of Turku.

By Aparupa Mazumder 

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