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Within the beginning of the 2019 port of Antwerp will have a permanent station of bunkeraggio of GNL
Initially will be dedicated to the refueling of the barges
July 15, 2015
Within the beginning of 2019 in the port of Antwerp will become operating a permanent station for which combustible the which liquified natural gas distribution for the barges. The Harbour Authority of the Belgian port of call has explained that, besides the distribution of GNL from the tankers to the fluvial barges, that is effettuabile in port from 2012, it is necessary that in port is present a permanent station for the gas distribution in order to avoid that the tankers must capture the GNL in the port of Zeebrugge and transport it to Antwerp.
Initially the Harbour Authority had in program to realize a permanent station for the GNL to dock 528 of the port of Antwerp, on an area of 7.304 square metres, and to assign it in management to an independent society, while now it has decided to call a contest for the construction and the successive management of the station and has invited the interested ones to introduce proposed progettuali within next 5 October. The new station could successively be used also for other forms of storage and gas distribution, between which that to the ships feeder.
the preliminary plan previewed the realization of a station of permanent bunkeraggio of which liquified natural gas of the ability to 450 cubic metres, for a annual ability pairs to approximately 45.000 cubic metres, but the harbour authority has specified that, according to the characteristics of the system, the ability could be also advanced.
the harbour agency has specified that the five barges fed to currently operating GNL in the port of Antwerp have a reservior of the ability to 50 cubic metres of gas, quantitative that is sufficient for a round-trip travel between Antwerp and the Swiss fluvial port of Basel.
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Within the beginning of 2019 in the port of Antwerp will become operating a permanent station for which combustible the which liquified natural gas distribution for the barges. The Harbour Authority of the Belgian port of call has explained that, besides the distribution of GNL from the tankers to the fluvial barges, that is effettuabile in port from 2012, it is necessary that in port is present a permanent station for the gas distribution in order to avoid that the tankers must capture the GNL in the port of Zeebrugge and transport it to Antwerp.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
