Green ports

Tiedo Vellinga

Prof. Ports & Waterways, Delft University of Technology

Dir. Environmental Monitoring Maasvlakte 2 Port of Rotterdam Authority

MARIN Smart Ports seminar April 23, 2013

Presentation

• Introduction

Green ports, fiction, condition or foregoing conclusion

• Port vision 2030 Port of Rotterdam

• Sustainable ports and green growth

• Inspiring examples

• Green Port theme’s

• Roles of port authority and other players

• PIANC report Practical guidance for a sustainable port

In 2030 Rotterdam is Europe’s most important port and industrial complex. It is a powerful combination of the Global Hub and Europe’s Industial Cluster, both of which lead in the field in terms of efficiency and sustainability. In 2030 the Port of Rotterdam is a link in logistics chains with the lowest ecological footprint per ton-kilometre in the world.

Source: www.portofrotterdam.com

Towards Green Growth

Source: www.oecd.org

May 2011

Transport chains

Source: www.chaparralmoon.wordpress.com

Inland shipping

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Shortsea / feeder

The Rhine river and Port of Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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Contamination Cadmium Rhine river 1984-1986

Dredged material quality improvement

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Slufter: a symbol of a successful policy

Construction port expansion Maasvlakte 2

Nature compensation construction Maasvlakte 2

Common Scoter

Common Tern

Sandwich Tern

Nature compensation use Maasvlakte 2

Fen orchid

Environmental Zoning Maasvlakte 1 & 2

Rotterdam World Gateway One of the most sustainable terminals in the world

Best performance in automation and efficiency: new generation AGV’s

Maximum use green energy

Energy regeneration with the cranes

Energy neutral buildings (undergrond heat/cool storage)

Endsituation ≤ 35 % by road to the hinterland

Stakeholder agreements Maasvlakte 2

Sustainable Maasvlakte

• Parties: Friends of the Earth Netherlands and

Rotterdam Port Authority

• Joint research towards 10 % less airquality

pollutant emissions

Agreement with Fauna protection

• Parties: Fauna Protection Netherlands Association

and Port of Rotterdam Authority

• Management plans for Lesser Black-backed Gull,

Common Tern and Sandwich Tern, on Maasvlakte

1 and 2.

Press release FOE Netherlands 2008

FOE Netherlands wants mega courtcase against Maasvlakte 2

It asks thousands of Rotterdam citizens to join a legal procedure against the construction of the port expansion Maasvlakte 2 and asks them to donate money to FOE Netherlands to pay for the cost of the legal procedure

Environmental Ship Index

• Aims to accelerate the greening of ships

• Incenticizes behavioural change

• Priority with reducing airquality pollutant emissions

• Performance indicator developed in corporation internationally

• Credits can be scored for cleaner fuels and cleaner engines and a

carbon management

• 0 points when compliance to law, 100 point when zero-emissions and

carbon management plan

• Web-based, free for use and internationally applicable

Results ESI in two years

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Airpollution caused by navigation

Wake of a 3000 TEU Containership on the St. Lawrence river Canada

September 1 2011, 07:12 AM

Green Port theme’s

• Spatial planning port and surrounding area

• Transport modalities

• Information infrastructure

• Environmental quality (water, soil, air, dredged material, noise

etc.)

• Climate change (mitigation and adaptation)

• Nature, biodiversity, landscape and quality of life

Spatial plan port and surrounding area

• Coordinate future vision with and have it approved by the

relevant Stakeholders

• Co-plan and coordinate hinterland strategy with competitive

ports in the same hinterland

• Connect and integrate other spatial claims and opt for win-win

• Develop an adaptive Masterplan

Actions Green Port Manager

Integration I-complexes Rotterdam-Antwerp

Port Vision 2030: Europe’s Industrial Cluster

Challenges Green port for air quality

• Management of environmental space (NOx, SOx, fine dust)

• Perception of inhabitants

• Impact on nearby nature conservation sites

• Chances for synergy (logistics and industrial cluster)

• Facilitate development within improving environmental quality

2010 – 2023

NOx < 59 %

SOx < 92 %

Fine dust < 77 %

Example:

[Source: www.cleanairactionplan.org]

Actions Green Port Manager

• Define and manage an acceptable environmental footprint in

agreement with the stakeholders

• Agree on the scope (area, pollutants, logistic chains/activities)

• Anticipate on future regulations and invest in the future

(attract frontrunners/first movers)

Airquality

Potential roles of the Port Authorities

• Area-manager

• Estate owner

• Facilitator of/key player in the logistic chain

• Port administrators

• Regulators and enforcing agents

• Developers and managers of infrastructure

• Operators

• Nodal points of knowledge on ports and environment

• Facilitators for innovation

• Partner in the community

Roles of the other players

• Governmental organisations: recognise, facilitate and

follow-up with legislation)

• Banks: awareness and development of green finance deals

• Consultants and contractors: apply new design principles

like Ecodesign and Building with Nature

• NGO’s: stimulate and inspire

• Knowledge providers (universities and knowlegde

institutes) support the challenge with new knowledge and

pilots.

PIANC The World Association for

Waterborne Transport Infrastructure

PIANC EnviCom WG150 partnered with IAPH

“Sustainable Ports: A Guidance for Port Authorities”

Objectives of the WG

1. Definition of the Sustainable (Green) Port Philosophy

2. Create awareness for necessity of Sustainable Ports ->

sustainable development as an economic driver

3. Guidance on need and implementation of Sustainable Port

philosophy

4. Collect best practices from existing ports (effectiveness

and economic potential)

5. Link with Corporate Social Responsibility concept

6. Encourage and guide port re-construction and

transformation phases

WG Members and Support

• Ports: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bremen,

Ghent, HaminaKotka, Los Angeles,

Lagos, Rotterdam

• Representatives: PIANC EnviCom & MarCom, IAPH,

ESPO, CEDA, USACE, WWF

• Other: Terminal operators, research institutes,

universities, consultants, contractors

• Countries: Australia, Belgium, China, Finland,

Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the

Netherlands, Nigeria, Spain, UK, USA

WG150 Members

* A = Active, C = Corresponding

Name Representation A/C*

1 Mr. Tiedo Vellinga (Chairman) PIANC EnviCom & TU Delft / Port of Rotterdam A

2 Mr. Kris de Craene (Vice-chairman) IAPH (Port of Antwerp), Belgium A

3 Mr. Daan Rijks (Secretary) CEDA / Boskalis, The Netherlands A

4 Ms. Catherine Alcoba Young PIANC / US Army Corps of Engineers, USA A

5 Mr. Uwe von Bargen Bremenports, Germany C

6 Ms. Claire Bryant Young PIANC / APMT, UK A

7 Mr. Jan Egbertsen Port of Amsterdam, the Netherlands A

8 Mr. Andrea Ferrante PIANC MarCom, Italy C

9 Mr. Karsten Galipp INROS LACKNER AG, Germany A

10 Ms. Riitta Kajatkari Port of HaminaKotka Ltd, Finland A

11 Mr. Wim Klomp RoyalHaskoningDHV, the Netherlands A

12 Mr. Richard Marks RoyalHaskoningDHV, UK A

13 Mr. Antonis Michail ESPO A

14 Mr. Rick Morton Port Consultant, Australia (Corresponding member) C

15 Mr. Olumide Omotoso Nigerian Ports Authorities, Nigeria A

16 Mr. Carlos G. Peña CLE Engineering, Inc., USA A

17 Mr. Horacio Salerno ARUP, Spain A

18 Mr. Tetsuya Shiraishi Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan C

19 Ms. Saskia Walters Port of Ghent, Belgium C

20 Ms. Lisa Wunder Port of Los Angeles, USA A

21 Mr. Zhao Yifei Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China A

Report Content

1. Introduction from PIANC and IAPH presidents

2. Sustainable Port Concept

3. Role of the Port Authorities

4. Environmental and Sustainability Issues in Ports and

Related Logistic Chains

5. Institutional and Social Aspects (Port Governance)

6. Conclusions and Recommendations

7. Global Case Studies

Real-time examples from ports all over the world are used through the report

Definition of a Sustainable Port

“A sustainable port is one in which the port authority together with port users, proactively and responsibly develops and operates, based on an economic green growth strategy, on the working with nature philosophy and on stakeholder participation, starting from a long term vision on the area in which it is located and from its privileged position within the logistic chain, thus assuring development that anticipates on the needs of future generations, for their own benefit and the prosperity of the region that it serves.”

WG150 Conclusions (draft) (1)

1. The role of Port Authorities changes from re-active

landlord to pro-active partner in the development of

the region and of the logistic chain.

2. Co-operation with stakeholders in port development

&-operation

3. A Sustainable Port develops in harmony with its

environment to match limited and decreasing

environmental space and resources

4. Sustainable ports follow a new growth paradigm that is

truly sustainable with green growth as an economic

driver

WG150 Conclusions (draft) (2)

5. Ports take up technological and societal

developments to facilitate the transition towards

green growth

6. Ports are in a unique and privileged position in

the global logistic chain to capture and evolve

their roles to initiate and consolidate the needed

change, for their own benefit and the prosperity of

the region that it serves

7. Sustainable port development is based on a long

term proactive vision irrespective of actual

regulations

Finalizing the PIANC WG 150 report

• Review procedure report Q2-Q3 2013

• Publication of report Q3-Q4 2013

Please contact Mr. Tiedo Vellinga (Port of Rotterdam) or Mr. Kris

de Craene (Port of Antwerp) for more information and

participation in the review process

www.pianc.org

www.iaph.nl

Questions