EnviTec Biogas signs LBM bunkering deal with TT-Line

Germany’s EnviTec Biogas said it has signed a deal to supply liquefied biomethane (LBM) to Baltic ferry operator TT-Line.

IMAGE: Trial bunkering of TT-Line’s Peter Pan with LBM from EnviTec Biogas in Travemünde. Jan-Peter de Haan, Schenk Tanktransport via EnviTec Biogas

EnviTec has supplied a 40 mt LBM stem by truck to TT-Line’s passenger and roll-on/roll-off ferry Peter Pan. The stem was delivered in the German port of Travemünde as part of a bunkering trial, the company said.

EnviTec said it produces biogas from organic biomass waste such as slurry, dried poultry manure, food waste or agricultural residues. The biogas is then upgraded to biomethane using the company’s EnviThan gas upgrading process, and subsequently liquefied into LBM, which is also called bio-LNG.  

EnviTec will source this LBM from its plant in Güstrow among other options, it said in the statement.

“We have already carried out extensive bio-LNG bunkerings by bunker barge this year and are now pleased to have found, in EnviTec Biogas, a German partner for particularly flexible bunkering by truck,” TT-Line’s CFO Torben Nikolay said.

TT-Line said it ferries around a million passengers, 250,000 cars and around 500,000 freight units annually between the ports of Travemünde and Rostock in Germany, Świnoujście in Poland, Klaipėda in Lithuania, and the southern Swedish transport hubs of Trelleborg and Karlshamn.

By Nachiket Tekawade

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