The Port of Antwerp Bruges and the Namibian Ports Authority are planning a €250 million hydrogen and ammonia storage and export facility at the Namibian Port of Walvis Bay. The facility will store and ship green hydrogen and ammonia produced by companies in the region, including Belgium’s Cie Maritime Belge.
The port will be equally owned by the Port of Antwerp and the Namibian Port Authority and is expected to be built within three to five years at a greenfield site near the existing port. The port will be used to refuel passing ships and export green ammonia to Belgium and other European locations.
An expanded port elsewhere in Namibia has recently come under criticism from local groups due to construction near protected areas. The expansion of a port in Shark Island, which is roughly 250 miles south of Walvis Bay, was proposed to export hydrogen by German-based Hyphen. The location was once the location of a German-run concentration camp in the early 1900s and is considered sacred ground by the indigenous Nama ethnic group of Namibia.