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Cargill expands biodiesel production in North Sea Port with ground-breaking project

North Sea Port attracts more green investment. Cargill is pumping more than 125 million euros into the construction of a new factory at its Ghent site. It will use innovative technology to produce biodiesel from waste and residues. This represents a …
Nov 2, 2020 / Curious

Multi-million-euro project transforms CO2 into green raw material in North Sea Port

GHENT – Ten private- and public-sector partners on Wednesday 21 October marked the launch of the North-C-Methanol project. Together they will reduce annually the CO2 emissions by 140,000 tons.They will also generate 44,000 tons of “green” methanol …
Oct 22, 2020 / Curious

First LNG bunkering Ship to Ship in Ghent

Titan LNG FlexFueler001 delivers to tanker “Fure Valo”In a joint effort between the North Sea Port and Titan LNG, the first ship-to-ship LNG bunkering in the port of Ghent took place Tuesday night. Titan LNG delivered around 150 tons of LNG to The …
Nov 20, 2019 / Curious

Ekol Logistics and Transuniverse Forwarding to build mega multimodal site in North Sea Port

The Turkish logistics company Ekol Logistics and the Belgian groupage firm Transuniverse Forwarding are together building a 40 hectare multimodal site at Kluizendok in Ghent, part of North Sea Port.There will be 10 hectares for a cross-docking …
Jul 25, 2019 / Vessels

Consortium of Tractebel, Jan De Nul Group, DEME, Soltech and Ghent University cooperate in innovative project in the field of marine floating solar technology

A consortium of Tractebel, Jan De Nul Group, DEME, Soltech and Ghent University announced yesterday the launch of an innovative project in the field of marine floating solar technology. The partners strongly believe that solar photovoltaic (PV) …
Jul 19, 2019 / Curious