KfW IPEX finances first climate-neutral terminal based on hydrogen

Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank is supplying funding for the brand-new Duisburg Gateway Terminal (DGT), referred to as Europe’s very first totally climate-neutral terminal utilizing hydrogen innovation and the very first one to be wisely networked.

The trimodal inland terminal is being integrated in the Port of Duisburg, the world’s biggest inland port.

DGT is a global joint endeavor of logistics business and port operators and will end up being an important part of the Port of Duisburg.

The financed task consists of the building and operation of stage 1 of the DGT, which will be the biggest container terminal in a European inland port with a location of 235,000 square meters and where products can be managed trimodally in between ship, rail and truck.

In addition, the DGT will likewise be the very first container terminal to have entirely climate-neutral operation utilizing hydrogenThis is being finished with the assistance of the “enerport II” job, in which hydrogen-based energy conversion is to be carried out in the Port of Duisburg, and as numerous procedures as possible are to be energized.

The DGT is concerned both as a design for the ecological improvement of inland ports (in this case from coal to hydrogen) and as a pilot job for the future of logistics.

In addition, a storage facility for harmful products tank containers is to be developed on the DGT properties. This can be utilized by the chemical market along the Rhine River when water levels are low and navigation is bad as an option to storage on inland waterway vessels.

At the very same time, the storage facility will end up being a transshipment website for tank containers filled with hydrogen or the precursor ammonia. From here, hydrogen is provided to smaller sized commercial business, which, unlike big consumers, can not be linked to a pipeline for the time being.