{"id":9854,"date":"2016-05-23T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2016\/05\/23\/de-bunkering-first-for-netherlands\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:54:57","slug":"de-bunkering-first-for-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/alternative-fuels-greenport\/de-bunkering-first-for-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"De-bunkering first for Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Greenstream\u2019s <\/em>tanks had to be emptied ahead of a visit to the shipyard and the LNG was transferred to its sister barge, the <em>Green Rhine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Schaap, marine advisor at Titan LNG, said: &#8220;The transfer of the LNG was completed quickly to the satisfaction and high standards of all parties involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;After the transfer most of the remaining methane was consumed using the engine and then the tanks were purged with Nitrogen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The de-bunkering was executed in close collaboration between Amulet Management &amp; Services, Cryonorm, Titan LNG and the Port of Moerdijk with support from the Port of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p><em>Greenstream <\/em>was launched in 2013 as the first barge operating in Northwest Europe to be powered by LNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first de-bunkering of a LNG-powered inland waterway barge, Greenstream, has been successfully carried out at the Port of Moerkijk in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9854","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\/9854","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=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9856,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions\/9856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}