First LNG bunkering at Rotterdam complete

As a result, the new product tanker has received Rotterdam’s first LNG bunkering incentive, a premium amounting to a discount of 10% on the seaport dues.

The vessel arrived for the first time in Rotterdam to unload naphtha and gas oil at Vopak in the Botlek on 7 August.

It was shifted to the former home terminal of the ECT terminal at the Willem Alexanderhaven where the bunkering took place.

The temperature of the fuel tank was cooled down from ambient temperature to operating temperature. With the aid of nitrogen, the temperature was reduced from +20 °C to -162 °C in eighteen hours.

Then the bunkering of Shell LNG started, the bunkering of the cleaner fuel is expected to be completed on 10 August. The vessel will then continue to Gothenburg. In 2017, the Port Authority will welcome a new bunker vessel which Shell will use to supply sea-going vessels with LNG from the water.