Funded by: DfT through Innovate UK
The Green Corridor at Short Straits (GCSS) is a Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition (CMDC) round 2 feasibility study into establishing a Green Corridor (GC) between Port of Dover (PoD) and the Ports of Calais and Dunkirk.
The PoD is the closest UK port to mainland Europe, enabling it to operate up to 120 ferry movements per day carrying up to 11 million passengers, 2.1 million cars and 2.4 million trucks annually (2019). With sailings every 36 minutes the port can support just-in-time supply chains across the nation, handling around £144 billion in trade and is responsible for 33% of all UK-EU trade.
This project brings together, the consortium from the Dover Clean Ferry Power (DCFP) Project (a successful CMDC 1 project) and further partners; DFDS, Irish Ferries, Ikigai Capital, JG Maritime Solutions, SSE and ABB to study the feasibility of implementing a GC between PoD and the Ports of Calais/Dunkirk. The project aims to fully incorporate all parts of the GC, through the inclusion of all ferry operators, as well as bringing expertise from both the marine (JG maritime solutions) and net-zero (Ikigai) industries. The inclusion of SSE will allow the landside infrastructure required to support future energy pathways to be fully considered.
The GCSS consortium aims to: (i) identify and analyse the full value chain, including all stakeholders (ii) Identify viable energy pathway options, including synthetic fuels, ammonia, hydrogen (combustion and fuel cell), LNG and electrification for marine and landside port and customer vessels/vehicles, (iii) Identify relevant regulation and policy, (iv) produce a GC business case and, (v) produce a GC delivery plan. Each identified energy pathway will entail a careful analysis of associated potential well-to-wake/wheel emissions and any likely economic and operational impact on the delivery of this Short Strait.
The project starts in January 2023 and finishes in August 2023 and is funded by the Departmen for Transport (DfT) through Innovate UK.
Dr Ramin Raeesi, Director of the CeLSA, is joined by Professor Thanos Papadopoulos and Professor Tri-Dung Nguyen to lead the project work packages focusing on the green corridor business case and delivery plan.