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EU-Financed Nordic LNG Bunkering Project Gets Underway
The Port of Frederikshavn, Kosan Crisplant A/S (Kosan Crisplant), and Stena Line in an emailed press release announced that they have officially launched the European Union (EU)-financed Nordic Maritime Hub project, which includes the establishment of a bunkering facility for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the port area.
"At Kosan Crisplant we see this project as the door way to a big potential market for LNG in the Baltic Sea area," said Bo Larsen, Commercial Director for Kosan Crisplant.
"The bunkering facility is therefore also just the first step in our broader vision, in that we already have signed an agreement with another project consortium to establish a production facility for LNG and LBG (liquefied biogas) in Frederikshavn. Nordic Maritime Hub is thus essential for the development of the market for alternative fuels, not just in Denmark, but in the entire Baltic Sea area."
Under the project, the Port of Frederikshavn, Kosan Crisplant, and Stena Line are said to be aiming to improve the port's access facilities, including the establishment of shore power supply, as well as bunkering facilities for alternative fuels.
In June 2015, the Nordic Maritime Hub project is said to have been awarded TEN-T funding from EU's Connecting Europe Facility, which was established to encourage European transport infrastructure policy.
The project's opening event is said to have been marked by the EU's Motorways of the Sea Coordinator Brian Simpson, Mayor of Frederikshavn Municipality Birgit S. Hansen, and Managing Director of Port of Frederikshavn Mikkel Seedorff Sørensen as an "opening for a vent that symbolically initiated the dredging of the port basin."
In February, Ship & Bunker reported that Bunker Holding Group (Bunking Holding) announced it will build Denmark's first LNG production facility in the Port of Frederikshavn by 2017, with Kosan Crisplant set to design and deliver the production plant.
