Port Tarragona reaffirms its role as a reference energy hub in the Mediterranean during the III Renewable Ammonia Conference. The Port participated in the latest edition of this event to present the business lines it is working on related to the logistics of sustainable molecules. The Tarragona port facility is attracting new energy traffics with a low carbon footprint to advance towards climate neutrality. In this regard, Port Tarragona is positioning itself as a future hydrogen hub, with a dual role of import and export. Likewise, opportunities related to ammonia bunkering are also being explored.
The third edition of the 'Renewable Ammonia Conference', organized by AEAR (Spanish Renewable Ammonia Association) has focused on the development of an ammonia value chain that contributes to the decarbonization of industry and transport, reduces external dependencies and strengthens security in the supply of essential raw materials. The objective of the conference was to promote dialogue between administrations and ports, on the one hand, and between the energy and industrial sectors and promoters of renewable ammonia projects, on the other, to take advantage of Spain's renewable potential, advance in energy transition and consolidate ports as essential logistics nodes.
The conference included a round table focused on the role of ports within the renewable ammonia value chain. Under the title 'Infrastructures, ports and new uses of ammonia', the table was moderated by Enagás and included representatives from the port authorities of Huelva, Algeciras, Cartagena and Tarragona. The table showed that renewable ammonia has a real demand for both the industrial sector and the maritime transport sector. Likewise, emphasis was placed on the need to promote green corridors and to have a defined regulatory framework, to advance in the deployment of this sector.
In this regard, Jordi Anglès, commercial coordinator of Port Tarragona, highlighted the role of the Tarragona port facility as the main logistics partner for the largest petrochemical complex in Southern Europe. Anglès explained that, in addition, the Port also functions as a logistics node for the storage and distribution of petrochemical products to the rest of Europe. This dual function makes it one of the reference energy hubs in the Mediterranean.
Participation in the conference also made it possible to publicize the work that the Tarragona Port is currently carrying out to evolve towards new sustainable traffics and molecules with a low carbon footprint. In this sense, the business opportunities derived from hydrogen and ammonia have been highlighted.
Regarding the former, Port Tarragona is positioning itself as a 'carrier', with a dual role of import and export. This dual role, Anglès explained, is differential for Tarragona and responds, on the one hand, to the demand of the petrochemical complex, and on the other, to the proximity of hydrogen production and distribution projects such as H2Med. In the case of ammonia, opportunities related to bunkering are being explored, which expand the services offered by the Port.
