LNG

Exmar, the Belgian shipping line with floating liquefied natural gas interests, including the “Tango FLNG” production hull now deployed at the Argentine port of Bahia Blanca, has recorded a pre-tax loss as its business is restructured.

Fluxys, the Belgian energy and natural gas pipeline company as well as owner of the Zeebrugge liquefied natural gas import terminal, has taken over the LNG bunkering concession in the port of Antwerp in Belgium.

Sept 21 (LNGJ) - Titan LNG, a supplier to the marine and industrial markets, has developed a pontoon system for the delivery of LNG to river barges and sea-going ships in the ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, known as the ARA and which is Europe’s largest bunkering hub. Titan’s LNG bunkering pontoon is called the Titan LNG Flex-Fueler. It will mostly help fuel inland waterway vessels from a fixed location. “Currently truck-to-ship delivery provides the most flexibility and is the only means of receiving LNG bunkers in the ARA region,” said Niels den Nijs, Commercial Director of Titan LNG. “However, there is an increase in larger LNG-fuelled vessels coming into the market, which cannot bunker at land-based LNG stations,” den Nijs added.

Jul 22 - Belgium's Port of Antwerp is calling for tenders to design and build a new LNG bunkering station for barges. The new design must enable trucks, as well as barges, to fill up with LNG at a permanent bunkering station at the port from 2016.

The project will be partly subsidized by the LNG Master Plan for the Rhine-Main-Danube, as Antwerp Port Authority is partnering with Basel, Mannheim, Rotterdam and Strasbourg.