{"id":9444,"date":"2015-09-15T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2015\/09\/15\/antwerp-celebrates-lng-first-2\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T13:57:00","slug":"antwerp-celebrates-lng-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/antwerp-celebrates-lng-first-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp celebrates LNG first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While LNG bunkering has been available at the port since 2012, so far it\u2019s only been used for barges, with the LNG being supplied by trucks. <\/p>\n<p>A truck collects LNG at the LNG import terminal in Zeebrugge and brings it to the quay in Antwerp where it is pumped into the ship, a procedure known as truck-to-ship bunkering. The recent truck-to-ship bunkering of <i>Sefarina<\/i> now counts as a test case for the safety procedures that will apply to bunkering of seagoing ships. <\/p>\n<p>As part of its sustainability policy, Antwerp Port Authority aims to encourage and offer the use of LNG as ship\u2019s fuel and is therefore looking for a candidate to build and operate an LNG bunkering and filling station under a concession on quay 528. <\/p>\n<p>The Authority says its aim is for barges to be able to bunker with LNG at Antwerp at a permanent facility by the beginning of 2019 at the latest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Port of Antwerp is celebrating an LNG first after the seagoing vessel \u2018Sefarina\u2019, operated by Chemgas Shipping, became the first ship to be bunkered with LNG at the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9444","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\/9444","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=9444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9444"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}