Gothenburg launches bunkering app

Instead of reporting manually via email and phone, bunkering operators submit advance bunkering notification using the app. The app also shows available collection points for loading marine fuel onto bunker vessels. Capable of compiling bunkering statistics, the app facilitates the work of the Swedish Maritime Administration Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) and other organisations at the port.

The app is also of benefit to the energy port’s security coordinators, who save valuable time by no longer needing to act as intermediaries between the different parties. As the bunker operators administer quay bookings independently, all that is required is process verification.

“We are confident that using the app will help boost efficiency and maximise the use of our bunker quays. But we would like to point out that it is not our intention to use the app to replace daily contact with our customers, which will continue to be an important part of our relationship,” said Dan-Erik Andersson, head of operations at the port.

The app is available to all bunkering operators at the energy port. LNG operations are growing at the port, from which Skangas supplies LNG, and and infrastructure includes the Swedegas bunkering facility.

In 2017, 111 LNG-ships called at the Port of. Gothenburg. From January through April of 2018, LNG was bunkered 44 times.

More companies and ships certified for LNG bunkering are expected to use the port in the future, said a port spokesperson.