{"id":553,"date":"2023-01-13T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T08:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/?p=553"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:37:52","slug":"dr-ramin-raeesi-awarded-180k-funding-for-green-corridor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2023\/01\/13\/dr-ramin-raeesi-awarded-180k-funding-for-green-corridor-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Ramin Raeesi Awarded \u00a3180k funding for Green Corridor Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Business School has been awarded\u00a0\u00a3180k\u00a0funding to work on a project with\u00a0The Port of Dover<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0other academic and industrial partners\u00a0within the\u00a0Green Corridor at Short Straits (GCSS)\u00a0consortium\u00a0to become the UK\u2019s first high-volume Green Shipping Corridor.<\/p>\n

The Port of Dover is the closest UK port to mainland Europe;\u00a0it\u00a0facilitates\u00a0up to 120 ferry movements per day \u2013 carrying up to 11 million passengers, 2.1 million cars and 2.4 million trucks annually.\u00a0The Port is responsible for handling \u00a3144 billion of trade\u00a0(33% of all UK-EU trade). Greening this element of the supply chain will make progress in decarbonising the journey of the UK\u2019s trade \u2013 and paves the way for other ports to follow.<\/p>\n

This project, led by\u00a0Dr Ramin Raeesi<\/a>, brings together the consortium from the Dover Clean Ferry Power Project\u00a0which was\u00a0led\u00a0by\u00a0Dr Raeesi\u00a0at Kent Business School\u00a0alongside\u00a0Warwick Manufacturing Group, P&O Ferries and Schneider Electric, with additional partners for the second round\u00a0including;\u00a0DFDS, Irish Ferries, Ikigai Capital, JG Maritime Solutions, SSE and ABB.\u202f\u00a0AS part of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, the project is funded by the Department for Transport and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0GCSS consortium\u00a0focuses on the route between the Port of Dover and the Ports of Calais and Dunkirk\u00a0and\u00a0will support the transition to green crossings to and from the UK, making way for zero-emission vessels, leisure crafts and workboats in the future.<\/p>\n

Dr Ramin Raeesi said:\u00a0\u201cT<\/em>his project<\/em>\u00a0will study the feasibility of establishing a Green Corridor at Short Straits by identifying the full value chain and analysing all viable energy pathway options including hydrogen, electricity, synthetic fuels, ammonia and LNG for marine and landside port and customer vessels\/vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt will also identify relevant regulation and policy gaps and will produce a Green Corridor business case and a detailed delivery plan. This will not only support Port of Dover\u2019s ambitions for decarbonisation, but will also ensures the all members and stakeholders across the corridor\u2019s value chain are aboard with this ambition.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe work will support the UK\u2019s commitment to the Clydebank Declaration, which was agreed at COP 26, and ultimately help meet the zero emission shipping ambitions of the UK\u2019s \u2018Clean Maritime Plan\u2019, envisaging the UK as a global leader in clean shipping by 2050.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Port of Dover\u2019s Chief Commercial Officer,\u202fChristian Pryce, said:\u00a0\u201cThe Port of Dover is leading the way on Port decarbonisation, and more broadly, on recognising the role we will play in the decarbonisation of the UK supply chain. We are embracing the critical role and responsibility that the Port of Dover has, and recognise complexity of the journey we are undertaking, together. With sailings every 36 minutes the port supports just-in-time supply chains across the nation, being the key entry and exit point for over 2m HGVs and equivalent tourist vehicles to the UK Strategic Road Network. We can adapt to a diverse traffic profile and the flexibility, capacity and resilience of the route are unmatched in the UK, making us, and our French sister ports, the prime option for the first Green Shipping Corridor.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2022, Dover has moved up a gear in our sustainable ambitions \u2013 announcing our ambitious sustainability strategy in May, the Port intends to reach net-zero (direct emissions and our purchased energy) by 2025 and reaching net-zero (indirect emissions caused by our activity) by 2030. This week\u2019s announcement solidifies our position as the vanguard of UK port decarbonisation.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

The Green Corridor at Short Straits (GCSS): feasibility study into establishing a Green Corridor between Port of Dover and the Ports of Calais and Dunkirk is part of the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, funded by the Department for Transport and delivered in partnership with Innovate UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Announced in May 2022, and part of the Prime Minister\u2019s Ten Point Plan to position the UK at the forefront of green shipbuilding and maritime technology, the Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition is a \u00a312m investment from government alongside a further c.\u00a36m from industry to reduce emissions from the maritime sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The programme is supporting 31 projects across the UK, including projects in Scotland, Northern Ireland and from the South West to the North East of England. As set out in the Clean Maritime Plan (2019), Government funding has been used to support early stage research relating to clean maritime. The programme will be used to support the research, design and development of zero emission technology and infrastructure solutions for maritime and to accelerate decarbonisation in the sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kent Business School has been awarded\u00a0\u00a3180k\u00a0funding to work on a project with\u00a0The Port of Dover\u00a0and\u00a0other academic and industrial partners\u00a0within the\u00a0Green Corridor at Short Straits (GCSS)\u00a0consortium\u00a0to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74795,"featured_media":554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[282613,13897,877,9112,256068,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}