The Port of Rotterdam has set up studies to investigate how shore-based electric power can be made available to container, cruise, and liquid bulk ships.

The studies being undertaken at the terminals of Hutchison Ports ECT, Rotterdam, APMT2, Vopak, and Cruiseport Rotterdam should be completed in 2023.

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has calculated that the total energy demand and consumption of sea-going vessels in the port amounts to about 750-850GWh.