Green Light for LNG Shore-to-Ship Bunkering Station in the Port of Cologne

• 05 Nov 2018

PitPoint.LNG, the joint venture between PitPoint Clean Fuels and Primagaz Nederland BV, has received  the official permit for the construction of a shore-to-ship bunkering station for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the Port of Cologne.

The permit, required under the Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz (German Emission Control Act) to guarantee the safety of LNG as a fuel for shipping, was formally granted by the District Government of Cologne in the past few days.

Announced in June last year, the new LNG bunkering station will be built at the Am Molenkopf 1 in the Port of Cologne, facilitating the bunkering of inland waterways vessels that sail on the Rhine, Europe’s busiest waterway.

The company said that civil engineering work is now scheduled to begin for the LNG bunkering station, that will be operational by the second quarter of 2019.