Deendayal Port Authority (DPA), Kandla, organised the Kandla Green Hydrogen Conclave 2026 on Friday at its Administrative Office Building in Gandhidham, Gujarat. The event brought together global thought leaders, industry experts and delegates to discuss clean energy and sustainable maritime development.
The conclave began with a virtual address from Union Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and was attended by Sushil Kumar Singh, Chairman of DPA Kandla; Erik Solheim, former Minister of the Kingdom of Norway and President of the International Advisory Board for GH2 India; along with other dignitaries.
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Participants engaged in detailed discussions on green hydrogen, clean energy transition, sustainable port development and emerging green technologies. The event aimed to foster international collaboration and share ideas to accelerate India’s green maritime ambitions, according to DPA Kandla.
As part of the conclave, the GH2 delegation visited India’s first Make-in-India 1-MW Green Hydrogen Plant at Kandla and toured key port facilities to assess DPA’s infrastructure, operations and increasing focus on green energy and sustainability.
Chairman Sushil Kumar Singh emphasised the need to adopt greener fuels and energy-efficient technologies to reduce the maritime sector’s carbon footprint. He stated, “As we all know, the maritime sector contributes around three per cent of the total green hydrogen gas annually, and it’s one of the sectors which has to take initiative to bring down the Greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity in line with the Paris Agreement where the member countries and member states have agreed to restrict the temperature rise to ambient increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius.”
Singh highlighted the limitations of energy efficiency technologies, noting that they “cannot translate into a zero-emission kind of output.” He added, “The adoption of greener fuels, cleaner fuels, sustainable zero-emission fuels, along with the energy-efficient technologies that can help in bringing down the carbon footprint of operations in the maritime sector, that becomes important. The energy efficiency component of the technologies has its own limitations; it cannot translate into a zero-emission kind of output. So, the adoption of greener fuels is essential.”
