Hamburg will be home to Germany's first green ammonia import terminal

Hamburg Port Authority's chief executive Jens Meier says green ammonia imports will help drive maritime decarbonisation.

PHOTO: Gantry cranes at the Port of Hamburg. Hamburg Port Authority

The terminal will be built by Air Products, a hydrogen producer based out of the US, and Oiltanking Deutschland, the logistics arm of German energy company Mabanaft.

Germany will import green ammonia from global players and convert it into green hydrogen at Air Products' facilities. It will distribute the green hydrogen to local buyers from 2026.

Dutch terminal company Vopak plans to convert two existing LPG storage tanks worth 55,000-cbm each into green ammonia storage. This will later be connected to the northwest European hydrogen network and supply the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Other companies like Norwegian Yara International and Azane Fuel Solutions are also developing green ammonia networks for shipping in northwest Europe.

In the near future, the South Korean chemical company OCI plans to expand its green ammonia import terminal in Rotterdam. This will enable it to import up to 1.2 million mt/year of green ammonia. A terminal is being built at Onahama port, on Japan's northeast coast, in order to address the potential for large-scale imports of fuel-use ammonia for power generation.

By Konica Bhatt

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