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Cryonorm Completes LNG Fueling Station for Barges and Trucks
Cryonorm Systems (Cryonorm) says it has completed the construction of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) station, which is set to be used to fuel inland waterway barges and trucks with LNG fuel.
The station is said to have been built for logistics provider Royal Rotra (Rotra), and is located near Rotra's new container terminal in Doesburg, Netherlands.
"By opening the station Rotra is stimulating sustainable mobilisation of the multimodal transport chain with the use of LNG as an alternative and clean fuel," said Cryonorm, noting that the station is supported by the European Union, along with funding from the TEN-T Program.
Rotra says the station will be officially opened in April 2016.
The company also says that hulls for 15 seperate 361 foot barges are currently under construction at the Veka Centromost yard in Poland.
The barges are said to include Wärtsilä six-cylinder W20 Dual Fuel Engines that will run on 95 percent to 98 percent LNG fuel, "with a small proportion of diesel used for ignition," says Cryonorm.
The barges will be delivered to the company through a staggered delivery, which is expected to begin in late-2016 and last until mid-2018, says the company.
On Friday, Ship & Bunker reported that offshore marine and engineering consultancy Aqualis Offshore, part of Oslo-based Aqualis ASA, has been contracted by South Korean company, Gas Entec Co. Ltd (Gas Entec) to provide an engineering study for a new-build liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunkering barge that will operate offshore the U.S.
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