Navigating the shift towards electric

In the latest Portside Perspective podcast we talk to Alisha Fredriksson, co-founder & CEO of Seabound, who talks to us about carbon capture as a near-term solution for both decarbonising the existing fleet and a new market opportunity for ports.

Recorded live at GreenPort Congress 2025, Edvard Molitor, Head of international public affairs and sustainability, Port of Gothernburg, explores how ports are evolving into energy hubs vital to decarbonisation, from developing green corridors and electrification initiatives to enabling fossil-free logistics. 

In the latest Portside Perspective podcast we talk to Martine Dekker-Grootveld, co-owner & sales manager, Nemag, who highlights how Nemag’s bulk grab equipment improves environmental performance and efficiency at ports and terminals.

In the latest Portside Perspective podcast we talk to Herman Klaus, director application solutions at Hyster. He talks to us about where the industry is in terms of port electrification from the equipment manufacturer’s perspective.

In the latest Portside Perspective podcast we talk to Andrew Dawes, Regional Director, Humber, Associated British Ports (ABP), about how the Humber is leading the way in the UK’s green energy transition.

In the latest Portside Perspective podcast we talk to Crijn Bouman, CEO and co-founder of Rocsys, to explore the transformative potential of hands-free charging in ports.

In the latest Portside Perspective podcast we talk to Joakim Heijbel, director, digitalisation and sustainability at Bromma.He talks to us about Bromma’s flagship product, its electric STS crane spreader and also on the wider issue of electrification in the port equipment market.

In the latest Portside Perspective podcast we talk to Cameron Gook, senior infrastructure economist in port economics and infrastructure and Peter Bos, leading professional maritime solutions for renewable energy at Royal HaskoningDHV.

Monitoring the weather, building climate adaptation and resilience to operations – that’s what MarineLabs offers to harbours, ports and terminals. Dr Scott Beatty, CEO, MarineLabs, gives us the lowdown on how ports large, or small, can save time, money and efficiency if they get their monitoring systems right. 

Mercator Media’s GreenPort Congress was held in the French port city of Le Havre recently, providing another opportunity for leading figures in port sustainability to share insight, ideas and memories. On the sidelines of the 19th annual event, we eavesdropped on a conversation among old friends and colleagues, some of whom, now experts in their fields, have known each other since they were students EcoPorts science coordinator Chris Wooldridge introduces his former student, now Professor Mark van der Veen from the University of Amsterdam; Dr Antonis Michail, in turn a former student of Mark van der Veen, now at the International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH); and Dr Martí Bucha, with the University of Barcelona.