Environmentally friendly short sea traffic

The project has the form of a broad cooperation with 20 partners, including companies, ports and authorities. In short, the project is to pave the way for ships in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the English Channel having a possibility of being fuelled by liquefied natural gas (LNG). This requires an infrastructure of “filling stations”, just as the legislation and standards, etc. must be in place. And especially the infrastructure and securing hereof are at the core of the project.

The Danish Maritime Authority has made a contract with two recognized Swedish consultancy companies in the area that are to contribute to the work, namely ÅF and SSPA. A special element of the work consists in identifying, among other things, the safety conditions, the arrangement of the “filling stations” and the economy of using LNG. A wide number of the project partners contribute actively to the consultants’ work hereon. The work is to lead to recommendations on how to develop an infrastructure of “filling stations”. The recommendations are to be directed at central stakeholders, such as shipowners, ports, LNG suppliers, states and the IMO, etc.

The project is co-financed by the EU as a part of the Motorways of the Seas programme under the Trans-European Network of Transport and by the Danish Maritime Fund.