A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to be signed by the Baltic Ports Association to set a common approach for the new on-shore power supply, as a result of demands from the Ports of Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallinn and Turku.
The MOU will be signed during the ‘Baltic Sea as a model region for clean ports and shipping’ session of the Baltic Ports Conference 2016 on September 9, 2016.
The ports aim to provide new built connections with a voltage of 11 kV and a frequency of 50 Hz. They also want to encourage other ports and shipping companies to follow the initiative and recommendations concerning onshore power supply. The overall aim of the shore power deployment across the ports is to minimise the negative effects on the environment of port operations and shipping in the Baltic Sea.
Cooperation agreements between the four ports have already been signed in the period between 2009-2014. Electricity connections for vessels and a unified technical format of the facilities were some of the initiatives the ports agreed to work on together.
The European Union has recognised these issues and has implemented the directive for alternative fuel infrastructure (DAFI, September 2015) which will make shore connections in TEN-T ports mandatory under certain circumstances by 2025 at the latest.
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