European ports secure funding to speed up onshore power supply for container ships

Four ports have secured a total of €18m ($19.3m) in European Union funding to meet mandatory targets for the installation of onshore power supply.

Stockholm and Gothenburg in Sweden, Aarhus in Denmark and Germany’s Bremerhaven have won funding to meet a 2030 requirement to be able to supply shore electricity to container ships.

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