Recently, at the Qianwan port area of Qingdao Port in Shandong, three large foreign trade container vessels—”CMA CGM Luna,” “COSCO Shipping Leo,” and “CMA CGM Hope”—simultaneously docked and successfully connected to shore power, cumulatively using 91,300 kWh of shore power. This confirms that the coordinated power supply in the port area, precise adaptation of shore power, and the whole-process safety management system are becoming increasingly mature, and the standardization level of green port operations continues to improve.
Today, full-coverage and normalized shore power application has become the standard for green operations at Qingdao Port. Relying on systematic layout, Qingdao Port continues to improve its shore power infrastructure network, having built 26 sets of high-voltage shore power systems and over 90 low-voltage shore power connection boxes, achieving 100% full coverage of shore power at all available berths. Data shows that from 2023 to 2025, Qingdao Port’s annual shore power consumption increased from 2.7 million kWh to 20.38 million kWh, ranking first nationally in net growth for two consecutive years; in the first five months of 2026, shore power consumption reached 9.68 million kWh, a year-on-year increase of 17%, with the scale of clean energy use continuously expanding and quality and efficiency steadily improving.
Based on its hub port positioning, Qingdao Port has deployed clean energy at multiple points. Since this year, Qingdao Port has deeply explored the potential of clean energy, integrated solar, wind power generation, and energy storage systems, put into operation an integrated charging station in the port area, and continuously enhanced its green electricity self-sufficiency capacity. Currently, the port area has built the first hydrogen refueling station in domestic ports, with a daily hydrogen refueling capacity of about 1,000 kilograms, effectively supporting the normalized application of hydrogen energy equipment in multiple scenarios; the annual power generation capacity of existing and under-construction photovoltaic systems exceeds 30 million kWh, while simultaneously piloting micro-wind power generation and wind-solar hybrid technologies, and orderly promoting the construction of large onshore wind turbines, continuously consolidating the hardware foundation for green development.
In new low-carbon fields such as green fuels, Qingdao Port has taken the lead in breakthroughs and demonstrations, continuously enriching green shipping service scenarios and expanding new business forms of green energy bunkering. In March this year, the methanol bunkering vessel “Jianhang Lida” refueled two international vessels with a total of 2,500 tons of green methanol through a “ship-to-ship” method, successfully completing the nation’s first “one vessel, multiple supplies” mode operation, marking Qingdao Port as the first port in northern China to achieve normalized, full-chain marine green methanol bunkering services, providing a fulcrum for the green development of shipping.
From normalized shore power connection to the leap in green electricity self-sufficiency capacity, from multi-scenario application of hydrogen energy to the full-chain integration of green methanol bunkering, Qingdao Port is deeply embedding green and low-carbon concepts into all aspects of port planning, construction, and operation. Standing in a new development stage, Qingdao Port will continue to expand the application scale of clean energy, accelerate the pace of building a “green port,” and continuously empower the green and high-quality development of the transportation industry.
