The EU’s TEN-T Programme will co-fund with over €5 million the deployment of liquefied natural gas as a greener and cheaper alternative to heavy fuel oil for maritime transport in the North Sea.
The project will also help to meet European requirements on cutting the air pollution in the North and Baltic Seas.
European Regulations require the shipping sector to reduce marine sulphur emissions in the North Sea to 0.1% as of January 2015. One of the ways for the sector to reach this goal is to use cleaner fuels, such as LNG.
This project is part of a larger project aiming to promote the use of LNG in North Sea maritime traffic. It will cover three main objectives, namely the:
The project was selected for EU funding with the assistance of external experts under the TEN-T Multi-Annual Call 2013, priority ‘Motorways of the Sea’. Its implementation will be monitored by INEA, the European Commission’s Innovation and Networks Executive Agency.
The project is to be completed by the end of 2015.
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