Portugal is also keen to partner with Singapore to boost decarbonising and digitalisation of the maritime sector. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Unbeknown to holidaymakers frolicking on the beach at Sines, high-speed submarine optical cables lie deep off this Portuguese coast, forming an umbilical cord of connectivity and data between Europe and South America.
That this historic fishing town of just 14,000 residents, best known as the birthplace of legendary explorer Vasco da Gama and for its port, Sines, is also the landing point for terabytes of digital data certainly turns the traditional idea of a maritime port on its head. Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa said then that together, they will set up a gas pipeline in the GEC to transport “green hydrogen” and other renewable gases.
The country has an ambitious national energy and climate road map until 2030 and wants to be carbon-neutral by 2050. “It’s wonderful that PSA and the Port of Sines have an extended collaboration agreement until 2027,” said Portugal’s Minister of the Economy and Maritime Affairs, Mr Antonio Costa Silva, in his Lisbon meeting with a visiting delegation of media professionals from the Singapore Press Club in April.
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