How to Decarbonize Kobe Port:The Path to a Carbon-Neutral Port(CNP)
Kobe Port and Harbor Bureau
July 9, 20240

Table of contents
1. Kobe Port Overview
2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
3. Future CNP Activities at Kobe Port1

1. Kobe Port Overview

JapanKobe
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General Statistics of Port of Kobe
 Container Cargo Handling
2019

2020

2021

2022

Total

2,872

2,647

2,824

2,891

Foreign Volume

2,188

2,040

2,145

2,253

Export

1,179

1,082

1,148

1,207

Import

1,009

959

997

1,047

684

607

679

637

Domestic Volume(Units: 1,000TEU)

 Main Export Items(Units: 1,000t)*average tons from 2018 to 2022

Industrial Machinery

 Main Import Items
・Coal・Clothes and Footwear

Snythetic Resins and Other
Chemical Industry Products

・Chemical Industry Products
・Feedstuffs and Manure

Motor Vehicles

・Processed Foodstuffs

Automotive Parts
Steel Materials
0Containerized

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

non-Containerized33

Network of Trade Routes to Various Ports of the World■Regular container service routes

As of August 2023
RoutesNo. ofroutes

Frequency (permonth)

Total78310

North America
West Coast416Europe

14Australia,
New Zealand14SoutheastAsia

36144

China

29114

Korea andothers

72844

Kobe Port Waterfront Areas(4)(4) Renovated Kobe Port Tower

(5)
(1)

Area overview

(3)

(2)

(2) Glion Arena Kobe at Jetty No. 25

Inviting cruise-ship tours
Kobe Port Terminal
Spectrum of the Seas
(Passenger capacity: 4,246)

Nakatottei Passenger
Terminal
Setouchi Cruise

6Kobe Airport Overview

Changes in the number ofpassengers and use rate
350

Number of passengers (million persons)
300

72.5

250

67.0

200

67.8

70.9

69.2

Use rate (%)

70.3
64.2

60.4
273.9100

256.6

233.6

297.3

150257.7

221.6

65.2

77.4

80.0

75.8
67.6

64.9

312.7
272.5

248.0

46.4 172.0
48.1

50035.5

75.0
70.0

322.7

307.2
253.3

244.5

85.080.7

過去最高
1 4 1 隻 67.0

235.5
240.7

79.4

119.0

FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008 FY2009 FY2010 FY2011 FY2012 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018 FY2019 FY2020 FY2021 FY2022

65.0
60.0
55.0
50.0
45.0
40.0

*FY2022: April 2022 to January 2023

72. Current CNP Activities at Kobe PortGreenhouse Gas Reduction Targets and PlansFY 2030 target
2050 target

46% down from FY 2013
Achieving carbon neutrality(virtually zero CO2 emissions)82. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Supply Target and Plan for Hydrogen, Fuel ammonia, etc.
■Estimation result of hydrogen demand potential
2030: approximately 44,000 tons
2050: approximately 574,000 tons
■Supply plan for hydrogen, etc.
Secondary transportation
via Himeji Port
■Scale of hydrogen supply facilities

Image of the supply plan9

2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port

Demonstration project to develop ahydrogen supply chain:
Produce, Transport, and Store

Demonstration project to develop ahydrogen energy utilizing system:
UseKobe AirportIsland102. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Demonstrating technologies to produce, transport, and store hydrogen

🄫🄫HySTRANEDO subsidized project

🄫🄫HySTRA🄫🄫HySTRA

Hydrogen is produced from unused energy (lignite, or brown coal) in Australia.
The hydrogen is liquefied into liquefied hydrogen (LH2) and transported to Japan on a special carrier.
The project demonstrates the storage of hydrogen in the LH2 storage tank at Hy touch Kobe.

Technology Research Association
CO2-free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association

Supports provided by Kobe City• Field support• Public berth development• Raising awareness to encourage social acceptance112. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
The world’s first successful large-scale international transport of LH212

2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Supplying electricity and heat generated by a gas turbine fueled by hydrogen Energy supplycapacity
 Energy
supply capacity

Port Island Sports
CenterElectricity: approx. 1,100 kW

Heat: approx. 2,800 kW

Kobe Convention
CenterKobe New Transit

Kobe Hydrogen CGS
Energy Center

🄫🄫Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.

NEDO subsidized project

Wastewater
treatment plant

The project demonstrates the technology to supply electricity and heat generated by a gas turbine
fueled by hydrogen at Kobe Hydrogen CGS Energy Center to nearby Kobe public facilities.

Primary contractors
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Obayashi Corporation

Supports provided by Kobe City

• Field support• Coordination with energy suppliers• Raising awareness to encourage social acceptance13

2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Developing onshore power supply facilities

Shinko East Wharf

Shinko Jetty No. 114

2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Shinko Jetty No. 1

Shinko East Wharf

Onshore power supply to a training sailboat
Started from November 28, 2023

Onshore power supply to a coastal container ship
Started from April 25, 202415

2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Protecting blue carbon ecosystems as a CO2 sink near the Kobe Airport IslandPort Island
pearl-spot chromis: Chromis notata

Kobe Airport Island
black rockfish: Sebastes inermis

Forms shallow areas at depths of 3-5m
where sunlight can reach

Shidamoku: Sargassum filicinum

Wakame: Undaria pinnatifida16

2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe PortJapan-U.S. Joint Leader’s Statement on May 23, 2022
Fact sheet: The U.S.-Japan Competitiveness and Resilience (CoRe) Partnership[Excerpt] The United States and Japan held the Carbon Neutral Port (CNP) Workshop,and concurred to further strengthen the collaboration and identified the ports of Los
Angeles and Yokohama and Kobe as pilot cases.

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2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Partnership agreement with Long Beach Port
to decarbonize the port on October 14, 2022
The port authorities of Long Beach and Kobe singed a memorandum of understanding onpartnership port.
The two ports will cooperate and share information to develop port infrastructure andsophisticate port operations with the common goal of decarbonization, including the use ofhydrogen.

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2. Current CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Carbon-Neutral Airport (CNA)

Progress towards Kobe CNA(July 2021)
MLIT selected the airport as a priority research airport.
(October 2022)
Kobe Airport Decarbonization Promotion Council was established.

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3. Future CNP Activities at Kobe Port
Developing a CNP

 How to develop a CNP
Decarbonizing
supply chain
Developing asustainable energy
supply base

Incoming/outgoingvessels

Cleaner marine fuels and engines

Container terminals
and warehouses

Power generation using renewableenergy (solar and wind power),
onshore power supply, and cleaner
cargo-handling machinery

Incoming/outgoingtrucksCleaner fuels and engines forincoming and outgoing trucks

 A supply chain model20

3. Future CNP Activities at Kobe Port Activities in FY2024

New hydrogen-powered service boat

Incoming/outgoingvessels Hydrogen-powered Kobe City service boat Electrification of domestic cargo ships
Container terminals
and warehouses
 E-methane demonstration project, solar
power generation, and LED lighting
equipment Onshore power supply for ships at Shinko
Jetty No. 1 and Shinko East Wharf

Onshore power supply

Demonstration ofhydrogen-fueled RTG

 Demonstration of cleaner rubber-tired
gantry crane (RTG) by using a hydrogenengineIncoming/outgoingtrucks Elimination of congestion at container
terminal by using the CONPASS system
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Thank you very muchfor your attention

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