HGK Shipping announced the construction of a completely new type of vessel. The planned new structure with the project name “Pioneer” will be equipped with a future-oriented tank and loading system technology.
This will enable the company to transport gases both in a cold liquefied and pressure liquefied form. The vessel is setting new standards for safely and efficiently transporting the important source of energy, ammonia, obtained from “green” hydrogen at a time when the future of energy supplies is being put into place. The concept also allows for the removal of unavoidable quantities of carbon dioxide.
The company will create improved transport services for industry for cold liquefied ammonia (NH3) and liquefied carbon dioxide (LCO2) on waterways through these models.
We’re offering the market efficient transport alternatives. Thanks to this innovative type of vessel, we’re already paving the way to meet the logistical
requirements for sustainable inland waterway shipping.
…says Steffen Bauer, the CEO of HGK Shipping.
HGK Shipping’s concept for a vessel focuses on the most important materials that will need to be transported if the energy revolution is going to be a success story – related to both supplies and disposal. It is only possible at the moment to transport a gas such as ammonia on board an inland waterway vessel from the ports to destinations further inland if the gas has been liquefied under pressure.
Anke Bestmann, the Business Unit Director Gas Shipping at HGK Shipping, underlines the following, “Our many decades of expertise in transporting gases that have been liquefied under pressure are now being expanded thanks to the new kind of solution and it will enable us to transport them in a cold liquefied state too. This will further strengthen our market position in European gas tanker shipping.”
The concept also paves the way for these new kinds of vessels to be able to remove the quantities of carbon dioxide, some of which are unavoidable, from industry’s production sites – in liquid form, i.e. as LCO2. Using the CCS methodology (the abbreviation stands for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage), handling and storage capacity is currently being created at factories and ports for the envisaged geological storage of carbon dioxide at suitable sites, including former oil storage depots and natural gas storage sites.
