Port of Antwerp issues European call for tenders for new LNG station

The bunkering station will be designed to enable trucks, as well as barges, to fill up with LNG at a permanent bunkering station at the port from 2016.

Antwerp Port Authority is also allowing private firm to take the required steps to permit LNG bunkering at a permanent station.

The project will partly be subsidized by the LNG Master Plan for the Rhine-Main-Danube, a project that forms part of the European Commission’s TEN-T program.

The plan aims to promote the use of LNG as a fuel and its carriage as a cargo by European barges.

In order to assure continuity and achieve the maximum impact in the Rhine corridor, Antwerp Port Authority is partnering with Basel, Mannheim, Rotterdam and Strasbourg.

A collaboration agreement was signed in April and the Antwerp Port Police Regulations were extended at the start of this year to cover LNG bunkering.

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