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Vopak to add biofuel feedstock storage in Rotterdam

  • Mercados: Biofuels
  • 17/02/21

Dutch storage provider Vopak has commissioned new storage capacity at the port of Rotterdam for waste feedstocks, used in biofuels production.

Vopak will add 16 new storage tanks with a combined capacity of 16,000m³ at its Vlaardingen terminal. The storage capacity will be for waste feedstocks such as used cooking oil (UCO) and tallow. Vopak has "extensive experience" in storing such products, it said. The terminal is "well connected for logistics by vessels, barges, trucks and trains," it added.

The firm said it has invested in the storage "to meet the rising demand [for] biofuels in northwest Europe".

And the recast Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) will maintain support for waste feedstocks for biodiesel when it comes into effect in June, legislating for a rise in renewable fuels in transport to a 14pc share by 2030. RED II will cap food and feed crop-based biofuels at 7pc, and the EU has agreed to a gradual phase out of biofuels with a high risk of indirect land use change by 2030, focusing more attention on waste and advanced feedstocks.

A 1.7pc cap will apply for biodiesel produced from UCO and tallow categories 1 and 2 until 2030. And in Germany, a draft law has been agreed that will cap fuel from waste feedstocks at 1.9pc.


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