Moving on the Mersey – Freight User Journey
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Port Zero – Accelerating the Transition to NetZero
Accelerating the Port of Aberdeen's transition to Net Zero
Event finished: 30th August 2023
We are delighted to invite you to the Aberdeen Science Centre to hear about our Innovate UK Clean Maritime Demonstration project, Aberdeen Port Zero – accelerating the transition to NetZero.
This half day event will comprise of presentations from both external industry experts and the project team who will share the key findings and outcomes from the ‘Port Zero’ feasibility study. There will also be a Q&A session for you to ask us more about the project.
As seating is limited, we kindly request you apply to attend at your earliest convenience to secure a place and confirm dietary requirements.
We welcome attendees that have not been directly invited by a member of the project team – please also apply to attend the event and we will confirm availability as soon as possible.
We are finalising the full programme and we will update shortly.
The Project
The project aims to transition the Port of Aberdeen’s day to day operations to NetZero by 2040 emissions through adapting and supporting the development and introduction of innovative technology and processes.
The ‘Port Zero’ feasibility study has explored green, alternative power sources and technologies to power port and third party owned equipment including but not limited to road vehicles, cranes, reach stackers, tugs and pilot boats etc, as well as quayside infrastructure.
If you have any questions please contact richard.holland@cp.catapult.org.uk
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Maritime Accelerator 2023 Application Support Webinar
Connected Places Catapult will be hosting an application support webinar for our Maritime accelerator to share information and answer any questions applicants may have.
Event finished: 15th June 2023
The Maritime Accelerator is a programme powered by Connected Places Catapult, designed to support SMEs with innovative solutions that can be applied in the maritime sector.
We will select up to 10 SMEs to join the programme where they will receive a bespoke support tailored to their business needs. This will include investment readiness, business modelling, customer profiling and enterprise selling. The SMEs will also be supported by a consortium of industry, government, academic and regulatory partners and some will get an opportunity to design and deliver technology trials.
This application support webinar will cover the programme challenges and guidance on the application process. Connected Places Catapult will work alongside partners to ensure that the programme tackles significant sector challenges and accelerates innovation in the marketplace.
Partners include Port of Tyne, National Shipbuilding Office, Plymouth University, DP World, Serco, and Houlder with further to be announced soon.
For more details on the programme, visit our opportunity page.
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Maritime Growth Summit 2023
Maritime Growth Summit 2023: Investing in the future of maritime
Event finished: 2nd March 2023
The UK maritime innovation ecosystem includes high-potential technology companies, researchers, regulators, port operators, shipping companies and more. This ecosystem spreads across regions and is vital to supporting levelling up, building our new trading future and in increasing the export of UK IP to global markets.
Addressing the challenges faced in the maritime sector is of global importance, where the UK has significant and unique capabilities to tackle these challenges and grow our position as a world leader in maritime technology.
To unlock and support the growth of this ecosystem, Connected Places Catapult has launched the Maritime Innovation Flagship programme, delivered in collaboration with industry. This programme is accelerating the realisation of investment opportunities through innovation, delivering support to industry in identifying high-potential solutions and supporting innovators to achieve their growth potential.
This event will showcase the year one results of this programme, demonstrating the potential of innovation in maritime to deliver not only business benefits, but also to power key Government initiatives such as Levelling Up and stimulating economic growth.
Attendees are invited to engage with our innovators and industry partners and to work with us to shape the activity in year two and maximise our impact for investors, businesses, innovators and regions across the UK.
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Connected Places Catapult joins Maritime UK
Connected Places Catapult has become an associate member of Maritime UK, the umbrella body and collective voice for the UK’s £55bn maritime sector.
The maritime industries come together through Maritime UK to make progress on key areas of shared interest. Maritime UK’s national priorities are innovation, people, competitiveness, regional growth and the environment.
Connected Places Catapult follows Port Skills and Safety, which were the latest organisation to join the national umbrella body in December 2021. Maritime UK’s objectives are to champion and work to enable a thriving maritime sector. It does this through a combination of industry coordination and campaigning coupled with its programmes in each priority area.
The Catapult has been growing its impact in the maritime sector over recent years, and sees formalising its partnership with Maritime UK as an excellent way to continue working with the sector, scaling impact and bringing expertise from across multiple other markets in the UK and globally.
The Catapult offers multi-disciplinary, systems-focussed support to the great challenges and opportunities facing global communities today, from decarbonisation of infrastructure and transport to the digitalisation of future cities. In the maritime sector, the Catapult has worked closely with industry, innovators, academia and government to deliver key work such as the UK Ports of the Future Blueprint, the Freeports Playbook, the recently announced Moving on the Mersey initiative and more, including four recent Clean Maritime Demonstrator Competition projects. The Catapult supports industry to understand the potential value of new technologies, better targeting investment and building on cross-sector experience whilst accelerating innovative solutions to market, working together with larger technology organisations, SMEs and academia.
“This is an exciting time for Connected Places Catapult, but more importantly it is a time of great challenge and opportunity for the maritime sector both in the UK and in global markets. As the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place leadership, our connection with the maritime ecosystem is crucial to building a greener, brighter, more equitable future for the UK economy and our coastal and waterways regions.u0022u003cbru003eu003cbru003eu0022Formalising our membership with Maritime UK as the collective voice of the UK’s maritime sector is a fantastic opportunity to expand and focus our support towards high-impact opportunities for innovators, industry, regions and connected stakeholders. We look forward to growing our collaboration over the years to come and in continuing to work across the wider Maritime UK network to achieve our shared future ambitions.”Tom White, Ecosystem Director of Maritime and Ports at Connected Places Catapult
u0022We’re excited to welcome Connected Places Catapult to Maritime UK and look forward to working closer still with the team to make progress toward our shared ambitions.u0022u003cbru003eu003cbru003e“The Catapult has a hugely important role to play across our work programme in delivering Maritime 2050. From people to innovation and regional growth, we’re looking forward to deepening the relationship between our two organisations.”Ben Murray, Chief Executive of Maritime UK
As part of Maritime UK Week in October, the Catapult will be running two events.
On 12 October the ‘Innovation in Freeports – Driving investment through freeport innovation’ event will be held jointly between Connected Places Catapult, Innovate UK KTN and Maritime UK. This event will bring together leaders from across UK freeports and the wider ecosystem focused on delivering their mission, to share experiences, make new connections and hear global perspectives on successful freeports.
On 14 October Connected Places Catapult, with its partners Portsmouth City Council and Hampshire County Council, will host a Connections Cafe ‘How marine and maritime deliver growth: cross-sector opportunities’. The event will focus on key challenges faced within the industry and identify opportunities driving innovation and prosperity. It aims to encourage collaboration from complementary sectors, ranging from industry to academia, and understand the benefits for those in marine and maritime. This is an open event – register here.
Read more about joining Maritime UK as a member here.
Read more about Connected Places Catapult’s work here.
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Maritime Accelerator Application Support Webinar
Connected Places Catapult will be hosting an application support webinar for our Maritime accelerator to share information and answer any questions applicants may have.
Event finished: 15th August 2022
The Maritime Accelerator is a new challenge-led, 6-month accelerator programme powered by Connected Places Catapult.
The Catapult will select up to 10 SMEs to join the programme where they will receive support from a consortium of industry, government, academic and regulatory partners on the trial and testing of disruptive innovations.
This application support webinar will cover the programme challenges and guidance on the application process.
Through a focus on new and emerging challenges within the maritime ecosystem, Connected Places Catapult will work alongside partners to ensure that the programme tackles significant sector challenges and de-risks innovation in the marketplace. Partners include Port of Tyne, National Oceanographic Centre, National Shipbuilding Office, Plymouth University, DP World and others to be announced.
To find more about the programme, including how to apply, visit our application page.
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Our New Magazine – Connected Places
How is digital twin technology changing how we think about everything from cities to railway stations? How will the third age of flight change our skies and the airports of the future? And how are UK cities thinking out of the box to fund net zero investment?
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Our New Magazine – Connected Places
How is digital twin technology changing how we think about everything from cities to railway stations? How will the third age of flight change our skies and the airports of the future? And how are UK cities thinking out of the box to fund net zero investment?
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Our New Magazine – Connected Places
How is digital twin technology changing how we think about everything from cities to railway stations? How will the third age of flight change our skies and the airports of the future? And how are UK cities thinking out of the box to fund net zero investment?
Get the latest insights from innovators and thought leaders in cities and transport!
This first issue of Connected Places magazine is packed with ideas from the people shaping and connecting the places of tomorrow.
There’s an interview with IT industry veteran Dr. Alison Vincent on how ‘connected intelligence’ is shaping the places of tomorrow, and a look at the future of our maritime economy from the Catapult’s very own Tom White.
We’ve got innovation news, advice on applying academic innovation, and recommendations for places to visit, books to read and podcasts to listen to if you – like us – have an insatiable appetite for new ideas.
Discover the people and companies at the forefront of new ideas for our connected world.
Love this? Then you’ll also love the Connected Places Podcast!
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Moving on the Mersey
The history of the UK is one of trade, where we’ve been moulded and defined by our global connectivity through the seas. This is also true at a regional level, such as in Liverpool, the Solent, London and the Northeast
The history of the UK is one of trade, where we’ve been moulded and defined by our global connectivity through the seas. This is also true at a regional level, such as in Liverpool, the Solent, London and the Northeast. This trading history has created substantial regional employment opportunities at ports and in the maritime sector, as well as in supporting business services and in companies taking advantage of our growing access to new global markets.
However, despite this history, we’ve seen some of our coastal regions decline in recent decades, influenced by myriad factors such as declining tourism, the globalisation of supply chains and the impacts of new technologies, standardisation and increasing automation. This is particularly relevant in terms of Levelling Up, where we must also recognise that many regions most in need of regeneration are our coastal communities.
In levelling up our coast communities, innovation in maritime and ports can play a substantial role in rebuilding sustainable regional economies. Strengthening the maritime innovation ecosystem provides multiple benefits, such as supporting the growth of solution providers, creating new exploitation pathways for research, generating international export opportunities for UK intellectual property and attracting inward investment based on the unique strengths of maritime clusters in addressing globally relevant challenges.
One of those challenges is in optimising the flow of people and goods across multiple transport modes, where coastal regions and areas with access to useable inland waterways networks have a unique opportunity to make better use of the connectivity providing by those waterways. Increasing the efficient use of waterways as part of wider transport systems can have many benefits, including the reduction of emissions compared to other modes of transport, providing improved user experience and removing congestion from our road and rail networks.
In building up a vision of our renewed connectivity through waterways in UK regions, we teamed up with Royal Haskoning DHV and Mersey Maritime to establish three key user journeys that make better use of the River Mersey, including freight, tourists and commuters. Each of these journeys have been created together with stakeholders in the region, understanding their impact and value as well as the key technology elements that would come together through the new system.
Moving on the Mersey – Tourist User Journey
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Moving on the Mersey – Passenger User Journey
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As part of the Moving on the Mersey initiative, we have created the Ecosystem Visualisation Tool, showcasing the full journeys, the components that will make them a reality and the wider ecosystem activity that a future, integrated transport system on the Mersey would support or create.
Follow the link to explore these journeys and get in touch with your feedback or to find out more as we work towards the next steps in this journey.
To find out more about Royal HaskoningDHV visit: https://global.royalhaskoningdhv.com/
To find out more about Mersey Maritime visit: https://merseymaritime.co.uk/
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Green ports as energy hubs
In a world of climate change and the ‘green agenda’, the focus has been primarily on air, rail, and road transportation in regard to emissions.
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Green ports as energy hubs
In a world of climate change and the ‘green agenda’, the focus has been primarily on air, rail, and road transportation in regard to emissions.
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Green ports as energy hubs
In a world of climate change and the ‘green agenda’, the focus has been primarily on air, rail, and road transportation in regard to emissions.
So attention has now turned to the maritime transportation sector, hence the discussions around this important sector at COP26 and beyond due to our increasing appetite for consumer goods, foodstuffs and produce from around the world.
To date the government has formed a strategy to a) reduce emissions within the maritime sector and b) at the same time convert our ports into areas of ‘green opportunity’ as hubs that produce energy for the wider economy.
Challenges – How can we reduce these emissions within the maritime sector?
Governments, academia, and ecological bodies have come together to form a strategy of action to reduce carbon dioxide globally.
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has set a target to halve 2008 emission levels by 2050.
The strategies in place to reduce these emission levels are through:
- increasing electrification of ports and port handling processes, and
- the adoption of future fuels for example LNG (liquified natural gas), hydrogen or ammonia
Globally we all need to ‘come together as one’ to decarbonise shipping and ports, thus ensuring we meet our target for maritime CO2 reduction.
The UK leading the way
The United Kingdom is ideally positioned to lead the way in maritime carbon and CO2 reduction. Due to the UK being the home of the IMO, having direct access to regulators and the other bodies listed above. Though we must not forget the United Kingdom has always been a pioneering and seafaring nation when it comes to shipping. This has stemmed from the pioneering days of the seventeenth century exploration, the creation of the commonwealth and through to the present.
The United Kingdom – An opportunity to take the lead
There are over 100 ports are operating around the UK that process over 95% of UK trade. Thus, the time is right now for us to take the lead and lead by example in decarbonising our ports. ‘First mover’ opportunities within this sector allow us to build a significant competitive advantage.
For example:
- The governments ‘Build Back Better’ strategy places the UK in the ideal position for our Ports to be among one of the first countries in the G20 to achieve net-zero.
- The use of offshore wind farms to generate ‘clean energy’ in turn to supply the local logistics and warehousing sector with electricity.
Strategies & Enablers – reducing the carbon footprint within our ports
Ports are a complex mix of internal processes and wider stakeholder interactions that present significant challenges and opportunities in terms of reaching our national net-zero targets. Today our ports incorporate a broad range of infrastructure ranging from dockside facilities built in the Victorian era to highly automated cargo processing equipment. Therefore, what is the upshot and what is needed to achieve net-zero within our ports? Here are a few examples:
- Adoption of ‘clean fuels’ e.g., Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) or Hydrogen. It has been noted that a green hydrogen industry could generate £320bn for the UK economy by 2050 and would support over 120,000 jobs within Freeports nationally.
- Offshore renewable energy – the UK has the largest installed offshore wind capacity in Europe. This creates significant opportunity for our ports in the wind supply chain, for example, manufacturing, maintenance, and servicing. Plus, the added benefit of supplying energy to connected stakeholders (warehousing and logistics hubs).
- IT (Information Technology) integration and ‘The Cloud’ – streamlining goods handling processes and reducing the number of goods movements within the port, saving time and energy consumed by loaders, forklift trucks and Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs)
Ports as Green Energy Hubs – some examples
- Shell is developing a hydrogen hub through the Port of Rotterdam and the Hollandse Kust windfarm. Aiming to start production in 2023 it is expected to produce up to 60,000kg of hydrogen daily. This would in turn fuel 2,300 hydrogen-powered goods vehicles per day.
- The Port of Amsterdam is also involved in a green hydrogen project with Tata Steel and Nouryon, with the aim to create a 100MW hydrogen plant using energy generated by offshore wind.
- The Port of Aberdeen, Scotland is an accredited EcoPort and is playing a leading role in the region’s transition to a hydrogen economy, through the creation of an Energy Transition Zone. The Port of Aberdeen ETZ has primarily focused on renewables and their links to the wider transport network including hydrogen-fuelled buses and heavy goods vehicle fleets.
Find out more
This article is a summary of a full feature article which you can read in our Net Zero Places Innovation Brief.
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A bright future for the UK’s Freeports
As announced by the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak in the 2021 budget, the UK will soon have eight new Freeports. But the Government specification for Freeports includes requirements to work as an Innovation Hub for regional growth and support the transition to Net-Zero.
To support this, the Connected Places Catapult has launching our Freeports Playbook, a first step in establishing the fundamentals of Freeport objectives, their global positioning, potential benefits and operational models.
What is a Freeport?
A Freeport is defined as either a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) or a Free Trade Zone (FTZ). SEZs are geographical e.g., a region that covers all industrial and service sectors. An SEZ has beneficial tax, tariff and duty on goods and services. SEZs have differing commerce rules from the rest of the country. FTZs are known as ‘commercial-free zones’. Commonly they are fenced in, offer duty-free areas, warehousing and storage for goods transiting the UK.
Freeports – a ‘win-win’ strategy for the United Kingdom
Freeports have the potential to be powerful engines of regional growth, by attracting foreign direct investment and stimulating innovation and collaboration.
As part of the Government’s UK’s strategic objectives, Freeports have been devised to:
- Build Back Better – Freeports have the potential to be powerful engines of regional growth, by attracting foreign direct investment and stimulating innovation and collaboration.
- Levelling Up – To address regional inequalities for example ‘the North-South divide’ by providing opportunities not just in the South East by supporting regional economic growth nationally. As a UK government initiative ‘levelling up’ is a cross Whitehall departmental plan to implement better links with regional partners and decentralise power from the South East. The UK government has set up a £4.8 billion fund for regional infrastructure projects. Support is provided by the Department for Transport, Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government together with the treasury.
- Transition to Net Zero – Investment of £12 billion as an ‘enabler’ to facilitate industry, business and, transportation to plan for a ‘greener economy’
The UK’s Global Position as a Freeport
The majority of UK maritime ports and airports have an international outlook and global presence and this becomes even more important in the case of Freeports. UK Freeports have the opportunity to build a strong global position by building on the UK’s key relevant characteristics:
- attractive investment ground;
- a global reputation as a good place to do business;
- a robust platform for innovation; and
- ease of access to import and export markets.
The UK is in a extremely good position to take advantage and become a global player when implementing Freeports.
Locating my business in a Freeport – what are the benefits?
The benefits of locating in a Freeport are many:
- customs, reduced tariffs e.g. VAT,
- stamp Duty Land Tax;
- enhanced Structures and Building Allowance; and
- enhanced Capital Allowances.
Freeport Report
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