https://elmagallanico.com/2024/11/magallanes-podria-convertirse-en-la-primera-ruta-comercial-verde-del-pais?utm_source=chatgpt.comIn the auditorium of the Regional Comptroller's Office, actors and representatives of the maritime, port and logistics sector of Magallanes met - closing last month - to participate in the (in-person-telematic) consortium incubation workshop to promote a future green shipping corridor in the region, which could be added to three other previously identified maritime routes in the country.
Convened by the Regional Ministerial Secretariat of Energy of Magallanes, together with the Maersk McKinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping (MMMCZCS), the meeting attracted more than forty stakeholders from the logistics and port maritime transport area, who participated in the workshop with the purpose of identifying interests and opportunities for the creation of a future green corridor in the region and, in this way, decarbonize maritime transport with a view to 2030.
PRE-FEASIBILITY RESULTS
The workshop - supported by the Embassy of Denmark - had the active participation of Johan Byskov Svendsen and Manuel Gissler, representatives of the MMMCZCS, who presented the work methodology, the results of the pre-feasibility and the map of the initiative.
The 2022 pre-feasibility study identified 18 routes throughout the country that could be decarbonized, and is published on the MMMCZCS website. Subsequently, to date three possible green corridors have advanced to the feasibility stage: copper concentrate from Mejillones to Asia, sulfuric acid from Mejillones to Peru or other Chilean ports and fish farming in the Aysén Fjord; This, through the formation of a consortium of companies that cover the entire value chain of each corridor, in order to have realistic analysis and results.
“Considering that at a global level, shipping transport is responsible for 3% of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, Chile signed the Clydebank Declaration during COP26, with the objective of establishing green corridors by 2030, which are maritime routes in which vessels that exclusively use alternative fuels operate.”
Sergio Cuitiño, Minister of Energy of Magallanes, said:
“This commitment has been reaffirmed in the Government of President Gabriel Boric with the signing in 2023 of a Memorandum of Understanding with the Maersk McKinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping [of Danish origin], which has allowed this center to carry out pre-feasibility and feasibility studies of green corridors in Chile”
This is relevant considering that, according to figures from the Undersecretary of International Economic Relations (Subrei), between January and September 2024, 91% of the country's exports have been made by sea.
Source: El Magallanico
