Jan. 26 2024
Source Page: £33 million boost to turn green ports and ships into a realityFound: £33 million boost to turn green ports and ships into a reality
Asked by: Stephen Morgan (Labour - Portsmouth South)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to promote job creation in British ports.
Answered by Guy Opperman - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Department supports the entire maritime sector to help industry create jobs around British Ports, ensuring that ports can operate effectively within the right regulatory environment for growth. For example, the Department works jointly with the sector through the Maritime Skills Commission to build the right employment skills to underpin this. We are also investing directly with our match funded £206m UK Shipping Office for Reducing Emissions (UK SHORE) programme to accelerate decarbonisation, using innovation to drive economic growth and job creation.
Dec. 21 2023
Source Page: Celebrating the Seas-on of ChristmasFound: from toys to tinsel – the maritime industry works day and night to make Christmas what it is seafarers
Written Evidence Jan. 31 2024
Inquiry: The UK’s economic securityFound: the direct link between the UK’s economic security, maritime infrastructures, and geopolitics. 4.Ports
Apr. 22 2024
Source Page: £8 million funding boost for AI to make boats smarterFound: government launches £8 million Smart Shipping Acceleration Fund to drive maritime innovation and harness
Asked by: Baroness Randerson (Liberal Democrat - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they are taking steps (1) to ensure that maritime infrastructure projects, including shoreside electrical power, can speedily connect to the National Grid, (2) to build infrastructure for shoreside electrical power at UK ports to help decarbonise shipping, and (3) to enable cruise ships to connect to shoreside electrical power when docked at UK ports to assist them in reducing emissions in port.
Answered by Lord Davies of Gower - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
On 22 November 2023, the Government published the Connections Action Plan (jointly with Ofgem) and the Transmissions Acceleration Plan. These reforms will speed up connections to the grid and the build of new transmission infrastructure in Great Britain. This may help unlock and speed up investment in new maritime infrastructure projects in Great Britain that are reliant on upgrades to the grid, including shore power projects.
In addition, the government announced £29.5m of R&D funding will be allocated to shore power projects at the Port of Aberdeen, Atlantic and Peninsula’s Falmouth Port and Portsmouth International Port under the Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure R&D competition. As well as helping to reduce shipping emissions at these locations, including from cruise ships that call at their shore power enabled berths, these demonstration projects will also provide valuable evidence to inform future industry investment, research, and policy and regulation development.
Mar. 21 2024
Source Page: MGN 563 (M+F) Amendment 2 Port waste reception facilities and management planningFound: MGN 563 (M+F) Amendment 2 Port waste reception facilities and management planning
Apr. 05 2024
Source Page: New green international shipping routes backed by government fundingFound: Ireland – creating cleaner journeys for passengers and freight Maritime Minister, Lord Davies, is
Nov. 20 2023
Source Page: Regulations linked to statutory targets within the Climate Change Update Plan pertaining specifically to Scottish ports: FOI releaseFound: linked to statutory targets within the Climate Change Update Plan pertaining specifically to Scottish ports
Written Evidence Jan. 25 2024
Inquiry: EU Entry/Exit and the UK borderFound: EEE0017 - EU Entry/Exit and the UK border British Ports Association Written Evidence