The project includes the collaboration of the ports located in Rotterdam and Gothenburg, together with gas infrastructure firms including Gasunie in the Netherlands, Sweden-based Swedegas and Vopak, a provider of the international tank storage.
With the funding support from the Commission, the project is expected to be completed by 2015.
For shipping, LNG is considered as fuel that poses lower sulfur oxide, nitrogen oxide, carbon dioxide and particle emissions as compared to conventional fuels.
Shipping companies, by using LNG, can also meet the needs of the sulfur Emission Control Area that prohibits any sulfur emission exceeding 0.1% in the North Sea, English Channel and Baltic by 2015.
The LNG Rotterdam-Gothenburg project will form a north and west European chain for maritime LNG supply.
Gasunie and Vopak own and operate the Gate terminal located in Rotterdam, where large shipments of LNG from all over the world arrive.
Both companies are considering to extend the Gate terminal site with LNG break-bulk facilities to , allow the export of smaller parcels of LNG for redistribution to satellite terminals including the planned terminal in Gothenburg.
Vopak and Swedegas intend to build a small-scale LNG terminal in Gothenburg to supply fuel to shipping companies in Scandinavia.
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