Ground has been broken on the facility which will see LNG arriving at the terminal by tankers or containers and distributed via a 450-metre vacuum-insulated cryogenic pipeline to the quayside. The facility is expected to be operational within 2018.
The first LNG bunkering was performed in the Port of Gothenburg in 2016 and today it offers ship-to-ship LNG refueling by Skangas, who will now be joined by Swedegas.
“With both Skangas and Swedegas operating at the Port of Gothenburg, we have two companies that complement each other with different offerings. Shipping lines now have a further incentive to consider switching to LNG,” said Jill Söderwall, vp and head of commercial operations at Gotenburg’s Energy Port.
The port said it had seen a “steady rise” in the number of LNG bunkering operations. In interest in LNG bunkering has picked-up with coming into force of the IMO 0.5% sulphur cap for bunker fuel from 2020.
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