Port of Rotterdam, Namport on green hydrogen
The Port of Rotterdam has signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) to cooperate in the field of green hydrogen with the Namibian
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.
