Gazprom Germania performs first LNG bunkering at Port of Rostock

Gazprom Germania GmbH, daughter company of Gazprom Export, bunkered a ship with LNG

for the first time at Germany’s largest Baltic Sea port. The M.V. Greenland, a cement carrier

operated by the Norwegian shipping company KGJ Cement AS, was the vessel. To make this

possible, the LNG was transported to Rostock by road tanker.

“We believe there is a great deal of potential in the maritime sector. Climate-friendly natural

gas could replace thousands of tons of heavy fuel oil every year”, said Timo Vehrs, Director of

Business Development at Gazprom Germania GmbH. “We have now taken a crucial first step in

Rostock, where this bunkering operation has shown that the vision of using LNG as bunker fuel

has already become a reality.”

“We are very pleased to witness this new development at our port”, commented Jens Aurel

Scharner, managing director of Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH. “We are certain

that the opportunity to bunker alternative fuels like LNG will play its part in making us more

competitive and encouraging more environmentally friendly ships to call in Rostock.”

LNG continues to gain importance with shipping companies that operate in the North and Baltic

Seas, where stricter environmental standards have applied to shipping since January 2015.

Under the new standards, ships’ emissions are limited to 0.1% sulphur instead of the previous

1.0%. This was part of the reason why back in 2014 Gazprom Group signed a memorandum of

understanding with Rostock Port on cooperating in the LNG market.

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