Port of Antwerp gets EU subsidies for LNG project
Support to develop and build a Liquefied Natural Gas bunkering station for barges in the port of Antwerp
The Antwerp Port Authority has lately received positive news from the European Commission concerning its application for a subsidy for Liquefied Natural Gas. The support will mainly be used to develop and build an LNG bunkering station for barges in the port. Further details for the granting of the subsidy and how exactly it will be used will be announced in the near future. The preparatory study work for this station has already started and the objective is to have it in operation by the end of 2015.
The port of Antwerp has for some time now been preparing intensively to make LNG available to vessels in the port in a safe, efficient way by 2015, when the stricter IMO regulations for sulphur content of fuels come into force. By approving the subsidy application the Commission has demonstrated its confidence in LNG as the fuel of the future.
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