Port of Rotterdam, Namport on green hydrogen

The Port of Rotterdam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding

Implementation Authority Office, Namport, and Nampower.

The organisations have confirmed their intention to build a green

hydrogen-related infrastructure, leading to new hydrogen supply chains from

Luderiz to Rotterdam and surrounding areas.

This comes two months after the Port of Rotterdam announced that it is

developing an 11-hectare site on the Maasvlakte suitable for the construction of

a large green hydrogen plant.

The agreement was signed during the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s visit

to Namibia, which was primarily focused on cooperation on energy transformation

and renewable hydrogen.

With this MoU, the three Dutch state-owned enterprises aim to emphasise

their commitment to further promote, deepen, and organise Namibia-Netherlands

collaboration on green hydrogen in the next years.

By signing a Letter of Intent (LoI) between Namibia’s National Planning

Commission and the Netherlands’ Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy,

the MoU builds on a discourse in the sphere of energy resources, notably in

green hydrogen.

The collaboration with Namport is one of several from the Port of

Rotterdam, previously teaming up with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar

Energy Systems (ISE) and the Australian government in February of this year to

build a joint hydrogen centre in Western Australia.

Additionally, in May, the Port of Rotterdam inaugurated

the H2 Barge 1, the first zero-emission hydrogen-powered inland

containership.