NORDDJURS / AARHUS: Director of Grenaa Port Henrik Carstensen sharply criticizes the report that Aarhus Municipality includes in the decision on an expansion of Aarhus Port, writes Jyllands-Posten. In response to the criticism, Aarhus Mayor Jacob Bundsgaard (S) responded in writing: "The information from the director of the Port of Grenaa is new and surprising to me. I would therefore ask the Port of Aarhus, which commissioned the report from HBS, to clarify the matters in the report that have been criticized."
As previously mentioned, the report from the consulting firm HBS analyzes four alternatives for a new large Outer Harbor, of which cooperation with the Port of Grenaa is one of them.
Here, the consulting firm concludes, among other things, that the Port of Aarhus, in collaboration with the Port of Grenaa, can reduce its area requirement by 3.5 hectares - by moving 276,000 tons of bulk goods (ed.: loose, unpackaged bulk goods).
And in addition, according to the consulting firm, CO2e emissions will increase by 4,900 tons over 50 years, calculated at 7,200 tons more as a result of additional road transport offset by 2,300 tons for a reduced Outer Harbor.
Do not recognize numbers
- We read the report as if we can only make 3.5 hectares available, but we can make an area of 30 hectares available. So there is quite a big difference. We cannot recognize the CO2 calculations they come up with at all. It doesn't make sense that we have to deal with some customers who are located in the vicinity of Aarhus. Then you can talk about a bad CO2 account. But it is not the customer groups we are talking about at all, but the goods that may be going to Herning, Silkeborg, Hobro or Randers, says port director Henrik Carstensen. Partner at HBS Economics Esben Anton Schultz rejects the criticism.
- I think that part of the criticism is due to a misunderstanding of our task. We have not had the task of assessing whether any of the current goods can be moved to Grenaa, but only the future goods, which of course create the need for the outer harbour. We have also not had the task of assessing how much free capacity there is at Grenaa Port, but only the possibility of moving some of the future goods from Aarhus Port to Grenaa Port, he tells the newspaper.
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