Portuguese company Galp announced that it has completed this week, at the port of Funchal in Madeira, the first ever LNG vessel refueling conducted at a Portuguese port or any Atlantic island.
Galp is new capable of refueling vessels with LNG at any port of mainland Portugal and islands and will soon be able provide ship-to-ship refueling.
The operation involved the refuelling of the ‘AIDAprima’, an environmentally friendly cruise ship and the first LNG-powered cruise liner. The amount of LNG that was provided to the ship is equal to the average daily consumption of 42.000 households.
The LNG that the company used in this operation is transported through cryogenic cistern containers, a solution that maintains the gas in liquid state at very low temperatures, facilitating its safe transport. In Madeira, this logistics replicates a virtual pipeline that supplies the thermal power plant of Vitória.
With these projects, Galp aims to adopt innovative energy solutions, in order to reduce its emissions.
Galp’s cooperated in this operation with Gaslink, a Groupo Sousa unit that runs the LNG transportation and supply logistics between Portugal’s mainland and the port of Funchal.
