Deploying circular economy in port environments
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Circular Ports

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
3 Climate-neutral societies
objective
3.1 Circular economy
Project type
Implementation
March 2025 - February 2028
Technical details

Circular Ports

In the project Circular Ports, Baltic Sea ports explore symbiosis opportunities within port environments for waste reduction and material reuse, establishing viable circular business models.
Project summary
The EU Green Deal launched a strategy for a climate-neutral, resource-efficient & competitive economy, in which strengthening Circular Economy (CE) is a main building block, to fight climate change. Anyhow, port environments (port city administrations, port authorities, enterprises) neither have the overview about waste-/material flows & supply chains nor instruments to find economic feasible CE-synergies today. Reasons are a scattered stakeholder environment and unclear responsibilities. This hinders to develop CE best practices in port environments, to be scaled-up in the BSR too. Circular Ports lifts CE synergies & provides transferable solutions to deploy CE in BSR port environments, presented in a toolbox that contains: - A methodology for data collection, -mining, & -visualisation on waste-/material flows in port environments to provide a basis for CE strategy implementation. - Functional stakeholder platforms to find symbioses between enterprises. - Business models based on CE-strategies to motivate replicators to scale-up solutions. - Procurement guidelines considering CE. Applying the CE principle benefits in an increased GDP by +0.5% & +700,000 new jobs by 2030 in the EU, less emissions & by that fights climate change. Further, there is a clear business case for enterprises: since manufactures in the EU spend 40% on materials, closed loop models can increase their profitability, while sheltering them from resource price fluctuations & providing better resilience.
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Budgets

Circular Ports
in numbers.
  • 4.15
    Million
    Total
  • 3.32
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway
46 Benefitting organisations 1 Solution(s) in preparation 1 Solution(s) plannedfor use / upscale 6 Pilotactivities 37 Organisationsin the project

Circular Ports
in numbers.

Project partners

Lead partnerPort of Hamburg Marketing
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
593,900.00
EMR European Metal Recycling GmbH
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
248,500.00
Hamburg Port Authority
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
94,000.00
City of Lappeenranta
  • Town
    Lappeenranta
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Etelä-Karjala
Total partner budget
267,401.60
Centrum Balticum Foundation
  • Town
    TURKU
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Varsinais-Suomi
Total partner budget
254,960.00
LAB University of Applied Sciences Ltd.
  • Town
    Lappeenranta
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Etelä-Karjala
Total partner budget
249,639.60
Port of Tallinn
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
200,656.80
Enefit Green AS
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
195,501.00
Port of Aalborg R&D
  • Town
    Aalborg Øst
  • Region
  • Country
    Denmark
  • Region
    Nordjylland
Total partner budget
359,280.19
Climate Alliance, Aalborg, Aalborg Municipality
  • Town
    Nørresundby
  • Region
  • Country
    Denmark
  • Region
    Nordjylland
Total partner budget
149,580.00
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
  • Town
    Göteborg
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Norrbottens län
Total partner budget
211,076.00
Port of Norrköping
  • Town
    Norrköping
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Östergötlands län
Total partner budget
169,557.00
University of Gdansk
  • Town
    Gdańsk
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Trójmiejski
Total partner budget
366,625.00
Metkom Ltd
  • Town
    Debica
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Tarnobrzeski
Total partner budget
217,100.00
Baltic Ports Organization
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
135,004.00
The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
  • Town
    Linköping
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Östergötlands län
Total partner budget
155,250.00
Hamburg University of Technology
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
284,100.00

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