The Port Authority of Huelva, fully identified with the objective of maintaining a sustainable activity, a concept which includes the maintenance and conservation of the natural environment in which it operates, considers clearly and decisively in line with its Strategic Plan, the new Strategic Framework of State Ports and European and national policies on sustainability and energy transition.
At European level, the environmental guidelines and objectives set out by the European Commission have given rise to an extensive regulatory development that European ports have implemented and reinforced with tools such as the ISO 14001 and PERS environmental management systems, as is the case of the Port of Huelva.
Within the framework of the Port of Huelva’s environmental strategy, it is necessary to consider not only the purely port activities, but also the environment in which they are carried out, the environmental quality standards to be met, as well as the activities carried out by external agents with a direct influence on the Port Service Area and, consequently, on the Port’s environmental management.
On the other hand, in the Port of Huelva, the new fuels (production, logistics and supply) will position the Port as a future energy hub linked to the energy transition, acquiring a privileged position in the national strategy for green hydrogen and new fuels due to its location, experience and profile as an energy port. The Port of Huelva thus plays a strategic role in the fulfilment of the European Union’s decarbonisation objectives.
On 30 March 2023, the new Strategic Plan for the Port of Huelva 2023-2030 was approved, with a vision to 2050, providing a new focus based on three strategic lines: to position itself as an energy and industrial cluster promoting clean fuels, to be a logistics and intermodal port with competitive infrastructures and services and to be an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable, digitalised and innovative port.
In this new port model, the role of new fuels is therefore of great importance, not only for decarbonisation but also for the business model of the port itself; the development of all those logistic solutions which are necessary to improve the competitiveness of all the companies which operate in it; the optimisation of land to facilitate the implementation of new businesses and the generation of employment; the preservation of the environmental wealth of the natural spaces which surround it; and the commitment to continue the development of integration with the city of Huelva.