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Duisburg Gateway Terminal: Storage planned for tank containers

On Duisburg Gateway Terminal, a huge storage facility for tank tank containers is to be built. According to the port, there is no such yet.

In the port, the Duisburg Gateway Terminal (DGT) will be the largest container container terminal in the European hinterland. It will also be the first terminal to be operated climate-neutrally with the help of hydrogen with the help of hydrogen. The operating company and the chemical logistics company Bertschi AG from Switzerland now have concrete plans for a storage facility for tank containers with green energy sources and other chemical chemical products at this superlative terminal. A such a warehouse has not yet been built in any German inland port.

The warehouse, which according to Duisport "is of great importance for the chemical economy towards climate neutrality, according to Duisport, is of "great importance", is to be built on an area of the second DGT construction phase.

There up to 900 tank containers loaded with hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and other chemical products will be temporarily stored there. can be stored.

Duisburg Gateway Terminal (DGT): storage for tank containers to start at the end of 2025 start

Bertschi and Duisburg Gateway Terminal have agreed the establishment of a project company for this purpose. Subject to approval by the antitrust authorities authorities, Bertschi AG will hold 75 percent and Duisburg Gateway Terminal GmbH Gateway Terminal GmbH will hold 25 percent of the shares in this investment and and operating company. According to Duisport, the warehouse is scheduled to planned for the end of 2025, according to Duisport.

For construction of the facility requires an approval procedure in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act is required, which, according to Duisport "will be initiated soon". "The planned site in the heart of the the heart of the Port of Duisburg industrial area is located far away from protected objects such as residential buildings, so that even the largest legal distance requirements can be met without any problems," explains can be complied with," explains Hafen AG. For the handling and up to 24-hour storage of the aforementioned substances have already been permits have already been obtained.

Information for citizens planned

Furthermore In addition, additional traffic congestion from trucks can "can already be ruled out in advance because the facility will not any truck transports other than those already approved for the DGT, than those already approved for the DGT", explained Duisport in a press release. Accordingly, most of the deliveries and removals of the loading units will be be handled by rail and barge. "Irrespective of the official approval procedures, the project partners are planning an public information session after the summer vacation in order to possible concerns from the Duisburg Gateway Terminal (DGT) and Bertschi AG want to build the first storage facility for tank containers with green energy sources and other chemical chemical products. It is to be built on an area of the second construction phase of the Duisburg Gateway Terminal (DGT)

"We Duisburg Gateway Terminal is a storage concept for green energy sources and open storage concept for green energy sources and chemical products," says for all parties," says Jan Arnet, CEO of the Bertschi Group. "The concept fits perfectly into our global infrastructure for tank tank container logistics. The integration of container storage into the trimodal DGT will significantly increase transports to and from the overseas overseas ports in the North Range from road to rail and barge. the inland waterway vessel."

CEO of duisport, Markus Bangen, sees the project as "an important contribution to the competitiveness of North Rhine-Westphalia as an industrial and chemical North Rhine-Westphalia significantly".