The terminal is the result of multiple companies working together for several years through Manga LNG, a joint venture consisting of steel companies Outokumpu and SSAB, EPV Energy and the energy company Gasum. W\u00e4rtsil\u00e4 was selected as the main contractor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deployment of the new LNG terminal significantly supports the emission goals of Finland, as well as the entire Nordics,\u201d said Kimmo Rahkamo, vice president, natural gas and LNG at Gasum.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWith the use of LNG, we reduce the local pollutant emissions of maritime and heavy-duty traffic, while keeping the industry of Northern Finland competitive by offering energy that has low emissions and is affordable to the needs of different operators.\u201d<\/p>\n
In demand<\/strong><\/p>\n The deployment of Tornio\u2019s new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal will ensure shipments to Northern Finland and Sweden.<\/p>\n Mika Kolehmainen, CEO of Manga LNG Oy, pointed out that prior to the opening of the Tornio terminal, the only LNG terminal in Finland was in Pori, around 600km to the south.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cThe Tornio terminal is equipped with bunkering stations for LNG vessels, regasification equipment for liquefied natural gas, as well as a storage unit that is 50,000 m3 in volume.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Rahkamo believes that the new terminal will attract more operators to utilise LNG.<\/p>\n \u201cThe transition to a carbon neutral future does not happen overnight which is why each step is important. Building distribution infrastructure will make it easier for new operators to start using LNG. In the future, the same gas infrastructure can be used to shift to the use of liquefied biogas (LBG), which will further reduce emissions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The biggest LNG terminal in the Nordics has been opened in R\u00f6ytt\u00e4 harbour, Tornio to meet the growing demand for the fuel and increase security of supply in the Northern Nordics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}