KfW IPEX-Bank is providing financing for the construction and operation of the “Duisburg Gateway Terminal” (DGT), a trimodal, hydrogen-powered, container inland terminal in the port of Duisburg.
The DGT is an international joint venture of logistics companies and port operators and will be the largest container terminal in a European inland port. The terminal, with an area of 235,000m², will handle goods trimodally between ship, rail, and truck.
It will also be the first container terminal with completely climate-neutral operation using hydrogen, part of the “enerport II” project for hydrogen-based energy conversion in the Port of Duisburg.
According to KfW IPEX, the DGT is considered a model for environmental transformation and a pilot project for the future of logistics, including the creation of a warehouse for hazardous goods tank containers to be used by the chemical industry along the Rhine River.
To remind, Marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) issued the Safety & Shipping Review 2022, explaining that large vessels continue to drive ever-higher exposures, with fires, container and carrier losses, hazardous cargo, costlier salvage operations and issues with port of refuge leading to oversized losses and general average becoming more frequent.
The warehouse will also serve as a transshipment site for tank containers filled with hydrogen or the precursor ammonia, supplying smaller industrial companies unable to connect to a pipeline.
