Port of Amsterdam bunkers first natural gas powered sea-going vessel

The sea-going vessel Fure West, a chemicals and oil tanker of the Swedish shipping company FureTank, has been bunkered with liquid natural gas in the Port of Amsterdam. This is the first sea-going vessel to bunker with LNG in Amsterdam. The bunkering took place on the GroeneKade in the Amerikahaven, the designated location for safe truck-to-ship bunkering of LNG.

Fure West is the first sea-going vessel of FureTank that has a dual-fuel engine. Built in 2006, the ship has recently been converted to run on LNG. On November 21, she moored at Oiltanking for unloading. On November 22, she made her way to the GroeneKade where the bunkering took place. Titan LNG, an Amsterdam company trading in LNG, transported the LNG in five tankers from the GATE terminal to the Amerikahaven and ensured that the bunkering would be safely accomplished.

Inland navigation vessels have been bunkering with LNG in the Amerikahaven since 2013. As a result of recent changes to the quay, sea-going vessels can now also bunker there. The facility is part of the sustainability agenda of the company and the vision of creating a metropolitan port that is continually improving, becoming faster, smarter and cleaner.

Marleen van de Kerkhof, State Harbour Master, said: “Port of Amsterdam is fully committed to making shipping sustainable. This is needed to provide a sustainable solution to the demands of logistics and regulation. The facilitation of safe bunkering operations with new and cleaner shipping fuels is a good example of this. The GroeneKade is now a temporary facility. Together with various partners such as Titan LNG, we are looking to create a more permanent bunker facility that is both safe and efficient. Today’s bunkering operation was a successful first step in this direction.”

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