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Agreement between the Harbour Authority of Antwerp and Exmar for the bunkeraggio of GNL in the Belgian port
the activity will be started in 2015 with the employment of an appropriate lighter
September 17, 2013
The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has chosen the shipowning society Belgian Exmar which strategic partner for the development of the activities of bunkeraggio of which liquified natural gas in the Belgian port. The agreement previews that the harbour agency and the company take care together of the drawing up of the studies necessary in order to place the activity in existence and of the realization of a lighter for the refueling of the GNL whose construction - second the forecasts - will be started at the beginning of the next year.
"The Harbour Authority - the managing director of the Port of Antwerp has declared, Eddy Bruyninckx - not only intends to encourage, but also to facilitate the use of which combustible the natural gas which liquified for the given ships the relative benefits of environmental character and sustainability. Therefore the Harbour Authority wants to make sure that beginning from the 2015 ships that scale the port of Antwerp are able to resupply themselves of GNL in order to use it as fuel. Making use of the experience of Exmar in the GNL, the which liquified natural gas it will be offered as fuel for the ships in sure and efficient way. With this the ambition of the Harbour Authority to place itself which sustainable port becomes truth".
The managing director of the Exmar, Nicolas Saverys, has evidenced that "independent studies indicate that the market of the bunkeraggio of GNL from to 2020 has potential a world-wide one of ulterior million tens here tons of which liquified natural gas per year. Thanks to its particular experience in the GNL, for example for its transfer with flexible pipelines of connection - he has emphasized moreover Saverys - Exmar he is perfectly in a position to placing itself in this new market of the bunkeraggio of liquified natural gas and therefore to contribute substantially to the ulterior reduction of the emissions of the ships".
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The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has chosen the shipowning society Belgian Exmar which strategic partner for the development of the activities of bunkeraggio of which liquified natural gas in the Belgian port. The agreement previews that the harbour agency and the company take care together of the drawing up of the studies necessary in order to place the activity in existence and of the realization of a lighter for the refueling of the GNL whose construction - second the forecasts - will be started at the beginning of the next year.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
