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“We want the port of Sines to allow us to industrialize Portugal”, defended this Wednesday Pedro Nuno Santos, Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, at the presentation of the Strategic Plan of the Port of Sines 2020-2025, which took place this morning at the headquarters of APS – Administration of Ports of Sines and Algarve, in Sines.
Underlining the future role that the port of Sines may have in attracting industries to the country, Pedro Nuno Santos said that the objective is for the infrastructure to have “more people, more companies, more activity, to be a development pole for the region. , do Alentejo ”.
For the Portuguese Government, the port of Sines continues to be a priority and will continue to be essential in this cleaner world and in a more developed Portugal, ”said the Minister of Infrastructure.
Pedro Nuno Santos pointed out that “we do not want only to transship”, “we do not want to be only an energy pole”, “we want to use the port of Sines as a tool for the development and social of the country”.
“The port of Sines is an excellent example that the State, the country, makes the right decisions,” said Pedro Nuno Santos, adding that it is also “an excellent example of the contribution of public investment to the economic development of the country.”
In the government’s opinion, “the country only develops when there is an actor, which is usually the State, who takes risks and takes the lead”, although, as he ironically criticized, there is a part of the Portuguese who do not believe in the potential country and in the announced railway or green hydrogen cluster projects, for example.
“Portugal has unique conditions to produce hydrogen”, assured Pedro Nuno Santos, explaining that “75% of hydrogen production costs is electricity”, a factor in which Portugal is very competitive in the segment of renewable energies, wind and solar.
In this regard, the Government member recalled the agreement signed last week to establish a hydrogen export route between the port of Sines and the port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands.
And the Minister of Infrastructures warned: “if we manage to be among the first to get on this train, we will be able to attract new business areas to Portugal”, “new investments”, “new technologies”.
“The port of Sines will be central to this clean energy strategy”, particularly in the “National Hydrogen Strategy”, “a strategy in which we believe,” said Pedro Nuno Santos.
The Minister of Infrastructure warned that, in addition to the fundamental challenges of digitization and decarbonization, already mentioned by the authors of the Strategic Plan of the Port of Sines 2020-2025, a study coordinated by Álvaro Nascimento of the Católica Porto Business School – Universidade Católica do Porto , the challenge of industrialization will also be on the table in the coming years.
“This port is ours, it belongs to the Portuguese people. The port of Sines is very important for Portugal and could be decisive at the Iberian level ”, summarized the Minister of Infrastructure, noting that“ there is a potential that we are not yet taking advantage of ”, an objective to fulfill with the implementation of the aforementioned plan. strategic role of the port of Alentejo.
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