How Groningen Seaports aims to be a circular hotspot in 2020
Who are Groningen Seaports?
Groningen Seaports is the port authority for the port of Delfzijl, Eemshaven and the adjoining industrial sites. We have 2800 hectares port and an industrial area with 418 hectares available.
What do you do?
Groningen Seaports is tomorrow’s circular hotspot. It is the best place in the Northern Netherlands to test and optimize your circular business model and supply chain, to test the market for circular products at an industrial scale before going to full production, and to plug in at the existing large-scale ecosystem. Groningen Seaports has the feedstock, with a wide variety of businesses in our port we have feedstock streams available which suit different companies.
We have a well-known startup incubator in our port, focused on industrial solutions. It is our ambition to create new business activity and economic growth and to improve the business climate in the seaports. We stimulate innovation by plugging in startups into our existing eco-system. Within our startup community you can do pilot programs, tests and market studies while connecting with other companies in the port to help you grow within our region.
Tell us more about collaboration with Irish companies?
Groningen Seaports expects to cooperate more and more intensively with Irish companies. This concerns not only data centers, but without a doubt the circular sector as well. “Ireland is highly active in the recycling industry and is fully committed to the circular economy. This is also one of the spearheads of our company. That’s why we’d like to get in touch with Irish parties operating in that field to see if and how we can reinforce each other,” says CEO Cas König.
To give an example, Groningen Seaports has recently been working closely together with the Irish organization The Planet Calls, whose mission is to make the oceans plastic-free by 2030 by promoting new technologies. These technologies – which include an independently sailing drone that sucks up plastic – will be tested in Delfzijl and Eemshaven from next autumn onwards. This project will be one of the biggest projects in circular economy in Groningen Seaports.
Groningen Seaports is joining Irish partners to consider ways of building future data centers from recycled building materials. Irish companies have gained a good global reputation for designing, building and equipping complex data centers such as Google in Eemshaven.
Heb jij ze al gezien? Deze kleurrijke containers van @Bekenverburg sieren vanaf nu onze haven! #Afvalscheiding #Eemshaven #Circulair?? #Plastics #Recycling? pic.twitter.com/Fo9yMxtesG
— Groningen Seaports (@GroningerHavens) March 6, 2020
Enterprise Ireland, the Irish government agency for trade and innovation, promotes cooperation between Irish and Dutch companies. In terms of size, the Netherlands is even the second export market in the euro zone for companies supported by Enterprise Ireland.
Upon the close collaboration between Groningen Seaports and different Irish companies, the Irish ambassador Kevin Kelly paid an introductory visit to Groningen Seaports on the 18th of February. Mr. Kelly was shown around Eemshaven and introduced to the chemical cluster in Delfzijl. The Irish ambassador was impressed by the developments and the potential of Groningen Seaports and sees many opportunities for Irish companies in the port area.
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