Primagaz Benelux has signed an agreement with Gate terminal for truck loading at the terminal as from January 2014.
Primagaz will load liquid natural gas (LNG) by truck for distribution to its customers in the Netherlands.
This market is expected to grow in the coming period and Primagaz considers LNG as a valuable contribution to their existing activities on the short and on the long term.
The transport to the full European market will be handled by PrimaLNG. Both Primagaz Benelux and PrimaLNG are 100% daughter companies of SHV Energy.
The agreement marks that Gate terminal grows into a LNG hub.
Gasunie and Vopak, the initiators and partners in Gate terminal, originally developed this terminal as a LNG import terminal. In addition to the importing capacity, Gate terminal is since September 2013 also an export terminal.
Through Gate terminal the Netherlands now gets the ability to not only transport gas through the Dutch pipeline network, but also transport LNG as clean alternative to traditional transport fuel for shipping and road trucks.
As a first step Gate terminal completed the additional investments to facilitate their customers to berth small vessels and reload LNG in order to support the small scale market and global trading developments.
A truck loading station for reloading of LNG will be ready Q1 2014. With this the start of small scale LNG for the use of LNG as fuel is a fact.
[mappress] LNG World News Staff, December 12, 2013; Image: Gate