OCI International, an proprietor and operator of a large-scale ammonia import terminal within the Port of Rotterdam, and VICTROL, a bunkering service firm, have teamed as much as develop a refrigerated clear ammonia bunkering provide chain within the Netherlands and Belgium.
The partnership was formalized with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) beneath which the businesses purpose to collectively develop a secure, scalable, and commercially viable provide chain for clear ammonia bunkering within the Netherlands and Belgium.
The phrases of the collaboration will see OCI’s subsidiary, OCI Ammonia Distribution, lead the sourcing and import of unpolluted ammonia – each blue and inexperienced – from key international manufacturing hubs within the U.S., Center East, North Africa, and Asia.
Ammonia can be transported by sea-going vessels to the OCI Terminal Europoort (OTE) import terminal within the Port of Rotterdam, the place it is going to be saved, distributed, and made out there to be used as marine gasoline. OCI is concurrently constructing partnerships with a rising community of shipowners and end-users who will undertake ammonia as a clear gasoline for his or her fleets.
VICTROL can be tasked with designing, constructing, and working a liquid ammonia bunker barge, which is able to load refrigerated ammonia at OCI’s terminal and ship it on to ships within the ports, in addition to to inland industrial off-takers.
OCI’s OTE is the one impartial large-scale ammonia import terminal within the Port of Rotterdam. With permits in place to increase the terminal’s storage capability from 30,000 metric tons to 90,000 metric tons and throughput as much as 2 million tons per 12 months in step with growing market demand, OCI strives to place Rotterdam as Europe’s main hub for the distribution and storage of unpolluted ammonia.
Each firms are working with the Port of Rotterdam and the related authorities to make sure well timed security and regulatory frameworks.
The partnership builds on the port’s first-ever ammonia ship-to-ship bunkering pilot in April 2025, a big milestone that raised Rotterdam’s readiness for ammonia gasoline to stage 7 beneath the Worldwide Port Readiness framework.
Matthijs van Doorn, Vice President Industrial at Port of Rotterdam Authority, commented: “The port of Rotterdam is getting ready for a multi-fuel future to decarbonize international delivery, with ammonia as one of many future fuels.
“It’s nice to see this strategic partnership develop after the profitable ammonia bunkering pilot in April 2025, the place each OCI and Victrol additionally performed an essential function. Such collaborations are instrumental to create secure and sustainable provide chains and are key for Rotterdam to advance its preparedness for ammonia bunkering.”
