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Antwerp and Zeebrugge aim to become the European port hubs for the import of Chilean green hydrogen
Agreement with the Ministry of Energy of Santiago
November 8, 2021
Green hydrogen has also attracted the interest of Belgian ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge that yesterday, as part of the COP26 in Glasgow, have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of the Energy of Santiago with the aim of developing traffic between Chile and Western Europe of green hydrogen produced by South American nation, setting up a specific logistics chain that involve the Belgian ports and their hinterland in view of a more wide distribution needed to meet the expected demand in Europe.
Representatives of the two Belgian ports stressed the belief that the future energy system of Western Europe it will have to be based on local wind and solar energy as well as on imported renewable hydrogen and, giving reasons for the decision to further tighten ties with Chile, they specified that the Latin American nation has the goal of producing hydrogen cheapest green by 2030 and become one of the the world's top three exporters of green hydrogen by 2040.
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