Industrial gas supplier Air Products and Hamburg, Germany-based Mabanaft GmbH & Co. KG, through the latter company’s subsidiary, Oiltanking Deutschland, plan to build Germany’s first large-scale green energy import terminal in the port of Hamburg.
Targeted to provide hydrogen to Germany in 2026, the planned import terminal is to be located at Mabanaft’s existing tank terminal in the port, the German energy group said in a Nov. 17 statement.
Mabanaft said this location offers strategic access to green ammonia from large-scale green hydrogen production facilities operated by Air Products and its partners around the world.
The intention is to convert the ammonia to green hydrogen via Air Products’ facilities in Hamburg before distributing it to buyers locally and across northern Germany.
This latest announcement follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Air Products and the Hamburg Port Authority in February 2022, under which both parties committed to accelerate production, supply chain, and consumption of renewable hydrogen in the North of Germany and the Free Hanseatic State of Hamburg.
According to Air Products’ Chairman, President, and CEO Seifi Ghasemi, Air Products is the largest producer of hydrogen globally.