Port of the Future

The Port of Rotterdam stands out as Port of the Year for its unmatched leadership in accelerating the global hydrogen economy. It is pioneering the development of one of the world’s most advanced green hydrogen hubs, enabling large‑scale production through assets such as Holland Hydrogen 1 and Air Liquide’s 200 MW electrolyser, and building the critical infrastructure that will connect hydrogen supply to Europe’s major industrial demand centres.

The Port of Pecém (Ceará) is leading the development of Latin America’s hydrogen economy. Over the past 12 months, the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex has strengthened its position as a major platform for green hydrogen and hydrogen-derivative projects, advancing the infrastructure and partnerships needed to connect renewable generation with industrial development and export-ready logistics.

Port of Pecém stands out for converting ambition into an investable ecosystem: bringing together industry, government and technology partners to enable large-scale projects, accelerate permitting and site readiness, and build the foundations for a competitive clean fuels corridor. By doing so, Pecém is helping to put Brazil—and Latin America—on the global hydrogen map and demonstrating how ports can act as catalysts for integrated, scalable hydrogen hubs.

The Port of Antwerp-Bruges is acting like a true hydrogen hub: enabling projects, infrastructure, and ecosystem coordination across the value chain. Over the past 12 months, the port has strengthened its role as a European platform for hydrogen development and sustainability through initiatives such as NextGen, which provides a credible environment to test and scale energy transition technologies under real operational constraints. The port is also accelerating deployment by giving companies a place to prove performance, integration, permitting readiness, and safety in a live industrial cluster.

Later this year, the port will commission the world's largest AEM electrolyzer from Power to Hydrogen as part of NextGen.

SCZONE is accelerating hydrogen at scale by turning the Ain Sokhna industrial zone into a credible, export-oriented green fuels hub. In the past 12 months, the “Egypt Green Hydrogen” project in SCZONE secured a major H2Global-linked renewable ammonia export contract to Europe and advanced development of a 100MW electrolysis-to-ammonia project in Ain Sokhna—backed by an international partnership involving Scatec, Fertiglobe, Orascom Construction, the Sovereign Fund of Egypt and the Egyptian Electricity Transmission Company. By combining port-proximate industrial land, enabling infrastructure, and global offtake pathways, SCZONE is demonstrating how ports and economic zones can unlock bankable hydrogen trade at scale.

Porto do Açu is quickly positioning itself as Brazil’s leading maritime-industrial gateway for the global green hydrogen economy. With deep-draft infrastructure, large contiguous land availability, and strategic partners, the complex is being developed by Prumo Logística with the Port of Antwerp-Bruges International and anchored to a planned green corridor between Brazil and Europe.

Recent agreements with Yamna, Fuella AS, HIF Global, and Sempen—covering multi-hundred-megawatt ammonia and e-methanol projects totaling millions of tonnes per year, underscore the site’s scale and technology diversity. By dedicating extensive acreage to a hydrogen and derivatives hub and drawing top-tier developers, Açu is building a full value-chain ecosystem spanning production, conversion, and export.

Recognized by the Global Maritime Forum and RMI as a promising Zero-Emission Fuel hub, Porto do Açu stands out as a “port of the future”, taking a leading role in the energy transition.