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Green light of the EU to joint venture Marquard & Bahls - Tidy for the supply of LNG as fuel for the ships
the activity of the society will be carried out in the main ports localized in the areas of control of the emissions of north-western Europe
August 23, 2012
The EU commission has authorized the Germans Marquard & Bahls AG and Linde AG to constitute joint venture 50:50 with the objective to construct infrastructures for the which liquified natural gas in Europe dedicated to the marine field. The new society, to which Marquard & Bahls it will participate through the Bomin branch, will have center to Amburgo, will become operating within the end of this year and will supply LNG which combustible for the ships in some of the main ports localized in the areas of control of emissions (ECA) of north-western Europe.
Marquard & Bahls and Linde preview that I use it of the which liquified natural gas which combustible of the ships it will grow also as a result of the limitation to the sulfur emissions established from the norms in adoption in the European Union that will beginning from impose an ulterior reduction of the emissions of the ships in areas ECA on January 1°, 2015 ( on 15 July 2011).
"With the joint venture new - the member of the board of directors of Marquard & Bahls has confirmed, Claus-Georg Nette - we intend to offer to LNG to the shipowners which energetic source alternative with a minor environmental impact regarding the traditional bunkers fuel". Marquard & Bahls and Linde have remembered that within 1015 the employment of about 70 ships fed to LNG in Europe North is previewed and that - second the Danish Maritime Authority - the potential consumption of LNG will reach four million tons within 2020.
"The availability of a convenient infrastructure for the which liquified natural gas - it has found Aldo Belloni, member of the board of directors of Tidy - is essential for the development of the which liquified natural gas as combustible to marine use. This joint venture new follows our strategy for the liquified natural gas, already evidenced from the recent opening of the terminal LNG in the port of Stockholm and from our study with the Harbour Authority of Amburgo for the introduction of the which liquified natural gas". Belloni has remembered moreover that at the beginning of this year Tidy it has obtained the contract for the supply of LNG to the Viking Grace ship of Viking Line, that is the first fed ferry to launched which liquified natural gas 10th August from STX Finland to Turku and destined to operate on the route Turku - Mariehamn/Långnäs - Stockholm after the delivery, previewed next 10 January.
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