GENERAL

Since 15 January a new service provider has been operating in Groningen’s seaports: towage company Port Towage Groningen (PTG). This takes the number of towage companies operating in the ports of Delfzijl and Eemshaven to three. Wagenborg Sleepdienst BV and Int. Sleepdienst v/h F. Bijma have already been operating in the two ports for many…

The logistics service provider of conditioned products Sealane Coldstorage BV is expanding its activities at Eemshaven. There will be a new cold store with a storage capacity of approximately 8,000 tons, and the existing quay is being extended by 100 metres to meet the increasing demand for cargo handling. This new building project involves an…

Today Whitehelm Capital and Royal Vopak announce a change in ownership in Vopak Terminal Eemshaven, a joint venture terminal in the Netherlands between Vopak and NIBC EuropeanInfrastructure Fund I C.V. (“NEIF”). Whitehelm Capital, one of the world’s most experienced independent infrastructure investment managers, will acquire 90% of the shares in the company from Vopak and…

Carbon emissions to be replaced by water vapour if natural gas is switched for hydrogen. Cooperation with Statoil and Gasunie started. Vattenfall and its Dutch subsidiary Nuon is starting an innovative project together with Dutch gas infrastructure company Gasunie and Norwegian oil company Statoil to make use of hydrogen as a fuel for Nuon’s Magnum…

AkzoNobel, Avantium, Chemport Europe, RWE and Staatsbosbeheer create a breakthrough technology deployment to accelerate the biobased economy Avantium, a leading chemical technology company and forerunner in renewable chemistry, announces a partnership with AkzoNobel, Chemport Europe, RWE and Staatsbosbeheer for the development of a flagship biorefinery at the Chemie Park Delfzijl. This important step marks the…

Important step toward the largest and most sustainable malting location in Europe Holland Malt announced on 14th July that it will expand its malting plant in Eemshaven. Construction will begin in July. The expansion follows on the growth that Holland Malt has made in recent years, and will lead to doubling of its capacity between…

OCI N.V. (NYSE Euronext: OCI) today announced it has reached agreement to acquire BioMCN, a methanol producer and pioneer in bio-methanol production based in The Netherlands, for EUR 15 million. BioMCN’s glycerin activities are not part of the transaction and will be continued under the name of Dutch Glycerin Refinery B.V. with the same shareholder….

Yesterday evening at around 19.00 hours, the port authority Groningen Seaports welcomed the Norwegian MS Kvitbjørn in Eemshaven, the first time it received a seagoing vessel that sails on the fuel LNG. The vessel forms part of the existing Norwegian scheduled service that is maintained by the Norwegian shipping company NorLines  AS in cooperation with…