The subject of this call for tenders is the delivery of a study covering the following set of tasks:

Task 1: Assessment of the hydrogen demand in ports and industrial coastal areas;

Task 2: Build a European hydrogen ports roadmap;

Task 3: Derive economic forecasts on the possible business models and conditions needed for the transition to renewable hydrogen in ports;

Task 4: Develop case studies preparing projects concepts on hydrogen supply and use in ports;

Task 5: Provide the Research and Innovation (R&I), regulation, codes and standards standards (RCS), policy and regulatory activities needed for a faster uptake of renewable hydrogen at ports and coastal areas;

Task 6: Create the momentum by gathering the ports stakeholders under a network of organisations with common interests on a longer-term perspective to progress forward and assemble/centralise individual-port hydrogen roadmaps into a Europe-wide hydrogen ports’ backbone.

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