Port of Odense Establishes Denmark’s Largest Dry Port to Accommodate to the Future Green Transition

Port of Odense has recently announced plans to invest between DKK 4 and 5 billion ($568m and $710m) to establish what it said would be the country’s largest dry port. Port of Odense will be investing billions in keeping up the pace of the green transition with the establishment of Denmark’s largest sustainable dry port.

On almost one million square meters between the city of Odense and Aarslev, the Port of Odense will create Odense Dry Port – Denmark’s largest logistics hub with up to 500,000 square meters of buildings that must secure the supply chains for the port’s customers within the green transition. The Port of Odense has bought the closed experimental horticulture at Aarslev in central Funen from the state and will develop the area into a high-tech and sustainable logistics hub for DKK 4-5 billion. Odense Dry Port will ensure that the port’s large customers, within the wind turbine and offshore industry, can keep up with demand and ensure they have the opportunity to have larger stocks of the most necessary parts close to their production.

Odense Dry Port will be located close to the Funen Motorway and the railway system, and according to the plan will accommodate up to 500,000 m2. buildings and be equipped with the latest robot and drone technology, which Funen and Odense are already leaders in.

The location in Årslev will be a key factor in the efforts to succeed in producing the wind turbines and delivering the green quantum leaps that can provide the whole world with the sustainable energy it needs. The idea is that everything on and off the land must be thought of as green. The area has good access for electric or hydrogen trucks via the motorway, and in the long term we can work on using the railway, because the tracks go straight past, and here, in time, there will be room for heavy lift transport drones to easily get to and from. It is a springboard to the future in the middle of Denmark for the companies that create the green energy development that is desperately needed.

Context

In May 2022, Denmark, together with the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium, presented a plan where the four countries will together build 10,000 wind turbines in the North Sea by 2050. A plan that will ensure Denmark and the EU greater independence from the Russian energy supply in particular. In order to achieve the ambitious goal, the logistics behind the production must have as good conditions as possible.

About the Port of Odense

• The Port of Odense is Northern Europe’s largest production port for offshore wind and owned by the municipality of Odense which hold 100% of the shares.
• The port has over 7.5 million m2. commercial land and 200,000+ m2. buildings as well as modern and efficient equipment, including the striking gantry crane that can lift 1,200 tons and the world’s largest mobile harbor crane.
• There are 150+ companies at the port and they contribute 6,000+ jobs.
• The companies at the port have an annual turnover of more than DKK 10 billion.
• Port Odense has through the recent months and years been the focal point for huge infrastructural investments and upscaling among the major industrial players like Vestas and Bladt Industries, located at Port of Odense’s harbor site, which together has created a strong environment for the green transition.

Further information:

Anders Boe-Hansen
Special Consultant
aboh@odense.dk
+45 2037 2319