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Ammonigy & Juwö Poroton: cracked ammonia fuel for brick manufacturing

Kevin Rouwenhorst November 27, 2025

In our November episode of Project Features, Juwö Poroton and Ammonigy joined us to explore their “CO₂-free brick production” project, demonstrating the use of cracked ammonia fuel to fire bricks in Wöllstein, Germany. Though hurdles remain for the deployment of the solution at the necessary scale, promising operational results and quality-checked final products were achieved, and progress is being made towards emissions mitigation.

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Air Liquide’s Antwerp cracker begins operations

Julian Atchison November 23, 2025

Air Liquide has announced the successful start-up of its first industrial-scale ammonia cracking pilot unit at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges in Belgium.

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Status of renewable ammonia projects and technology licensors

Kevin Rouwenhorst November 18, 2025

One of the key steps in project development remains the selection of the licensor for the renewable ammonia synthesis loop. We explore different technology offerings from leading licensors – including KBR, Topsoe, Thyssenkrupp Uhde, Casale, Stamicarbon, and GoodChina – as well as the growing list of projects where they are being deployed.

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Complete supply chains: renewable ammonia production, transport, and export infrastructure in northern China

Kevin Rouwenhorst November 11, 2025

State-owned conglomerate Energy China and logistics and terminal specialist ADF are establishing a renewable ammonia supply chain in northeast China. In our recent episode of Project Features, we explored the Songyuan production project, and ADF’s planned scale-up of ammonia storage and transport facilities across China’s coast.

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GMF: South Africa-Europe iron ore shipping could run on ammonia by 2029

Julian Atchison November 10, 2025

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.

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Port of Rotterdam on the cusp of commercial ammonia bunkering operations

Geofrey Njovu November 05, 2025

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.

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VOC Port, ACME progress renewable ammonia project in Tamil Nadu

Julian Atchison November 04, 2025

At the recent India Maritime Week event, VOC Port Authority signed agreements with ACME ($1.4 billion) and CGS Energy ($570 million) for renewable ammonia production projects, and an agreement with Sembcorp for a $2.9 billion, common-use storage project for ammonia and other liquid commodities.

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Hyundai, Ulsan City to establish Korea’s first mega-scale ammonia import facility

Julian Atchison November 03, 2025

The pair have signed an agreement for the investment of $1.6 million for new ammonia storage facilities and import infrastructure on Korea’s southeast coast. Two large-scale tanks, new vessel berths and an offshore transfer pipeline will be capable of handling 1.25 million tons of ammonia throughput every year.

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Mitsubishi, Hygenco: a renewable ammonia supply chain from India to APAC

Julian Atchison October 29, 2025

The pair will develop a “master plan” for production, transport and utilization of renewable ammonia to Japan, Singapore, and other APAC markets. The development progress of the renewable ammonia production ecosystem in India (and recent SECI auction results and project requirements) were explored at a recent World Bank webinar.

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ITOCHU & partners: developing an ammonia bunkering hub in Japan

Geofrey Njovu October 22, 2025

ITOCHU, TORAY and Uyeno Transtech have signed a joint development agreement for ammonia bunkering in Japan. Ship management company BSM will oversee the technical management of ITOCHU’s 5000m³ capacity newbuild ammonia bunkering vessel, set to be delivered to Singapore in 2027.