Rotterdam Shorepower, a joint venture between the company energy sector Eneco and the Port Authority of Rotterdam, has awarded to the Swiss ABB the contract for the construction and construction of the maintenance of shore power plants to be installed in three deep-water terminal of the Dutch port in order to allow ships at the quay to turn off their on-board engines and connect to the shore power grid. These are the APM port terminals Terminals Maasvlakte II, Hutchison Ports ECT Delta and Hutchison Ports ECT Euromax which, overall, have a quay line of eight kilometers that will be equipped with 35 connection points with three separate shore power plants with a total capacity of over 100 MVA. Electricity supply systems from will be able to recharge up to 32 container ships at the same time.

The start of the works, which will take place simultaneously in the three terminal, is scheduled for the second half of the next year with the aim of finishing them starting from the second semester of 2028. The aim of the project is to reduce emissions in the port of Rotterdam also significantly in the FuelEU Maritime Regulation for the reduction of carbon emissions in shipping. This policy require all container and passenger ships to gross tonnage greater than 5,000 tons to use shore power or equivalent zero-emission technologies in ports of the European Union starting from January 1, 2030.