Germany’s new government plans to add LNG infrastructure with the planned import terminal at Brunsbuttel the most likely project as the cleaner fuel will become key to reducing shipping emissions, the economy and energy ministry said in a statement. Germany’s new maritime policy coordinator Norbert Brackmann and the state minister for Schleswig-Holstein Daniel Guenther will visit the GATE LNG terminal in Rotterdam Thursday, it said. GATE project partners Gasunie and Vopak also plan to develop a 5 Bcm/year LNG import facility at Brunsbuttel in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. According to the ministry’s statement, the visit is the first step for the next concrete measures for the realization of the project. “We want to make Germany a location for LNG infrastructure,” the statement said, adding that LNG will play a central role on the way to a’greenshipping’. Last week, a key committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) agreed a […]