Yesterday, the EU Commission adopted the EU Ports Strategy, a framework to strengthen the competitiveness, resilience, security, and sustainability of Europe’s ports.
The EU Ports Strategy and MAGPIE share, at their core, a common goal for greener, more resilient European ports. As the Commission puts it, “ports are changing today into multi-functional industrial hubs, which need to expand capacity and decarbonise, safely, simultaneously, and at scale”. This is a textbook example of the MAGPIE vision for the ports of the future.
Born out of the Green Deal, MAGPIE namely reflects the Strategy’s priorities:
Strengthen competitiveness & innovation:
In its strategy, the Commission commits to supporting the digital and green transformation by promoting the scale-up and uptake of innovative technologies. With ten technical demonstrators and four digital tools, we have developed over five years turnkey solutions to the challenges ahead: safe ammonia bunkering
Advance energy transition & sustainability: The Commission also focuses on clean energy deployment through electrification, grid access, and energy cooperation in ports, areas that MAGPIE has actively worked on throughout its development. We explored energy resilience by assessing multiple scenarios and delivered smart tools & practices for energy management and governance in port environments.
Secure ports, social cohesion, and skills: MAGPIE paved the way for energy and climate resilience by addressing the security of infrastructure, operations, and the workforce. This contributes to the EU’s strategic autonomy, which depends on a skilled next-generation workforce and on the role of both large and medium-sized ports in supporting infrastructures, training, and skills development. Finally, with this strategy, the Commission recognizes the importance of dialogue and the exchange of good practices to strengthen port-city relations and help make the transition a success.
The EU Strategy joins MAGPIE’s bold vision for green, resilient European ports of the future, and we will proudly deliver a Masterplan to the Commission at our Closing Conference, “Ports in Transition: Building Resilient Ecosystems,” in Rotterdam on September 17, to implement our technologies and recommendations, carrying forward the spirit of the Strategy.
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