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Danish Port Gets EU Funding to Build Pilot LNG Bunkering Facility
The Port of Hirtshals in Denmark has won European Union (EU) funding to construct the country's first liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage facility, the European Commission's Innovation and Network's Executive Agency has announced.
In partnership with the EU TEN-T Programme, €1 million ($1.1 million) will be funneled towards the pilot project, which will see construction of a 500 cubic metre LNG storage tank and bunkering facility.
The TEN-T Programme is part of the EU's efforts to have LNG fueling facilities in place at all core ports by 2030.
If successful, a larger facility expected to hold between 3000-5000 cubic metres will follow to provide fuel to both ships and road transport.
"The project's outcomes are expected to serve as best practice to other ports in northern Europe and encourage consumers switch to alternative fuel with reduced environmental impact," said the INEA.
The pilot project is expected to be completed by the end of June 2015.
A similar project was previously announced mid-last year, which at the time was also to be Denmark's first LNG facility.
That project, which would have been built and operated by Liquiline Europe AS (Liquiline), had originally been planned for the fourth quarter of 2014.
However the company entered bankruptcy shortly after, and was subsequently acquired by newly-formed Hirtshals LNG AS subsidiary Liquiline LNG.
