Europe’s largest CCS project will start‑up this summer, following the arrival and operational testing of the CO2 carrier vessel Northern Phoenix. Up to 800,000 tons of CO2 from ammonia production at Yara’s Sluiskil plant in the Netherlands will be transported and sequestered each year off Norway’s coast.
A feasibility study commissioned by North Sea Port and partners finds that an ammonia pipeline linking the coast to customers in the Ruhr industrial hinterland is technically and economically viable in the long term, should large-scale ammonia imports eventuate.
Beginning in Rotterdam, the newly-opened route visits Oslo, Brevik, and Bremerhaven to deliver fertilizer weekly, and will be serviced by the ammonia-powered Yara Eyde from later this year.
Duiker Clean Technologies and new partners Plant One have chosen the Port of Rotterdam as the location for the installation of the AMMONEX ammonia cracking pilot plant.
LBC Tank Terminals and duisport will jointly develop an inland ammonia terminal in Duisburg, connecting the key industrial hub to an under-development ammonia import, storage and cracking terminal in Vlissingen, the Netherlands.
Ammonia produced at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site will be consumed at OCI’s Geleen fertilizers manufacturing complex.
Ammonia-fueled iron ore carriers could feasibly be deployed on the South Africa-Europe iron ore trade route as soon as 2029, and scale toward full route decarbonisation by 2035. Saldanha Bay is currently home to South Africa’s primary iron-ore export terminal, and could develop into a marine ammonia fuel bunker hub with the right policy support levers and investment.
In April this year, a ship-to-ship ammonia bunkering demonstration was completed at the Port of Rotterdam. In October, two parties, OCI and VICTROL, who participated in the pilot, reached an agreement towards commercial implementation of ammonia bunkering.