Ternsund the first ship to bunker LNG

the bunkering (taking on fuel) of the Ternsund was initiated. It is the first sea-going vessel to bunker LNG (liquefied natural gas) in Rotterdam. As a result the brand new product tanker of the Swedish shipping company Terntank receives the first Rotterdam "LNG bunkering incentive’; a premium amounting to a discount of ten percent on the seaport dues.

On Sunday, the Ternsund arrived for the first time in Rotterdam to unload naphtha and gas oil at Vopak in the Botlek. Monday afternoon, the ship was shifted to the former home terminal of the ECT terminal at the Willem Alexanderhaven. This is where the bunkering will take place.

First, the temperature of the fuel tank was 'cooled down‘; from ambient temperature to operating temperature. With the aid of nitrogen, the temperature was reduced from +20 °C to -162 °C in eighteen hours. Then the actual bunkering of Shell LNG started. To this end, trucks drive between the Eemhaven and the Gate terminal (property of Vopak and Gasunie) on the Maasvlakte. The bunkering of the cleaner fuel will be completed on Wednesday morning. The vessel will then continue to Gothenburg.

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