Circular City Ports - Workbook 1, Circular initiatives in the Delta

02 Investigating city ports Working session
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WORKING TABLE 3
PORT-RELATED PRODUCTIVE ECOSYSTEMS
OUTLINE
City ports are too small to work on their own
● city port as pin in the vast network of providers, transporters and recyclers
● network of inland waterways as important economical structure
● mapping and consideration of locations and interdependencies in the system
● relation between city, port and hinterland can be important for systemic change
How can the city port make the bridge to systemic change and can its belonging to a
physical network increase the chances for establishing circular economy?
WORKING TABLE 2
NEW INFRASTRUCTURE TO FURTHER
BEST
CIRCULAR
PRACTICES
ECONOMY
● Haropa, Le Havre
● Blue Gate, Antwerp
OUTLINE
● Makersdistrict, Rotterdam
new kinds of infrastructure and facilities for circular ● economy Groencollect, Rotterdam
● Galloo, North Sea Port - Ghent
● transshipment docks, consolidation warehouses, ● sorting Biostoom, of waste, Ostend disassembly
facilities...
● investment goes beyond interest of companies and sectors
● too big investments for single actor acould be shared investment of city port
STARTING QUESTIONS
● public - private partnerships and innovative governance agreements, key to steer,
> (How) can such an ecosystem be ‘made’? On the basis of which ingredients or
facilitate or initiate change
parameters?
WORKING TABLE 1
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COLLABORATION PLATFORMS AS TRIGGERS depends on (economical) FOR ACTION context, timing and coincidence
> What fruitful collaborations can be generated between different port(s) /region(s) /citie(s)
/companies?
Circularity needs infrastructure and typologies to facilitate flows, materials, knowledgesharing...
but who, what, how, where, when?
> What is there to win from collaborating across these territories?
OUTLINE
sharing information & tools to make circularity workable
> Is an economic strategy encompassing wider territories that strictly that of the city port
BEST PRACTICES
already present in urban renewal plans, or visions of ports and cities?
● both for policy makers as companies
● Prodock, Amsterdam
● Material Village, Brussels
> Which actor is missing to bear upon the creation of these productive ecosystems? Who is
● platforms of know-how (scientific and hands-on) to
● Bio boost Base new Europe circular Pilot initiatives Plant, North Sea Port - Ghent already there?
● Port Feeder Barge, Hamburg
● platforms of accessible information: where does actor
● Greenbizz, have to position Brusselsitself in eg. the
different flows (frequency, volumes, quality...) to take action
● going beyond borders of actors as key element for circular economy
STARTING QUESTIONS
● initiated and managed by certain actors of all fields > How important are these infrastructures? Do they really require another way of
operating?
You can’t be circular on your own, but who, what, how, where, when?
> Which actors could take on what role?
ex. (port authority, area managers, ...) moving beyond the landlord role
BEST PRACTICES
● Toile industrielle, Dunkerque
> What is needed to initiate change? What can be provided? Knowledge, money, ...
● Flanders Biobased Valley, North Sea Port - Ghent
● Clean Capital, Amsterdam
> Who is in the position to initiate change, to start transition into new forms of economy?
● Kanaalkant Area Manager, Antwerp
● Cleantech Cluster Region Ghent, North Sea Port > - What Ghentis the right timing for it?
STARTING QUESTIONS
> How does these collaboration precisely happen?
> What collaborations are missing where?
> How are the public actors (city/port) working together?
> What type of companies are or should be involved?
> How can the information be shared?
> What kind of space is needed?
> Which new/other infrastructures are needed?
> Is there a need for more knowledge about promising flows? Or is it more about taking
action with a selection of actors?
> Is the expertise and knowledge of economical actors or groups smartly used?
> What can be the role of OVAM and others regarding this issue?