ISO container loaded with LNG travels by rail from Mirimas to Milan

ISO container loaded with LNG travels by rail from Mirimas to Milan

For the first time in France, an ISO container loaded with LNG at Elengy’s terminal in Fos Cavaou has been transported by rail from the Miramas platform in the South of France and delivered to a service station near Milan, Italy.

This mode of transport offers several benefits: it allows large volumes of LNG to be transported, it reduces the cost of transport, and it facilitates access to LNG in certain regions, while significantly reducing the polluting emissions associated with its transport.

Carried out in partnership with Total and with the support of the Région Sud and the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille, this first loading operation of an ISO container transported by rail made it possible to validate the entire logistics chain.

Elengy said it is “thus accelerating the transformation” of its LNG terminals into multimodal hubs to offer even greater flexibility to the market and facilitate access to LNG.

Elengy said that this test illustrates its commitment to developing the use of LNG as fuel. After the LNG truck loading service opened in 2013 and the bunkering loading service, the teams are innovating with the implementation of a rail connection, which positions Elengy’s LNG terminals as multimodal hubs with infrastructures at the heart of the development of LNG mobility.

Sandra Roche-Vu Quang, Elengy’s chief executive officer, said: “This success paves the way for the development of LNG transport logistics chains by rail to serve regions in France that are far from our terminals as well as other neighbouring countries.”

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19th April 2021