Australia’s Port of Newcastle has signed a formal advisory agreement with Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) to advance its Clean Energy Precinct (CEP) project.

The agreement, which builds on a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2023, will, reportedly, enable the port to draw upon MHI’s knowledge and expertise in the production, storage and distribution of hydrogen and ammonia, providing insight to support the CEP’s front end engineering design (FEED) studies, which are currently underway.