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安特卫普港务局已收到利好消息，来自欧盟委员会，有关申请LNG（液化天然气）的补贴。该补贴将主要用于开发和建设LNG供油站安特卫普港的驳船。

为液化天然气供油站的筹备研究工作已经开始，目标是到2015年底有操作站。与此同时，数个月后的第一驳船，Argonon，沙坑与LNG在安特卫普港，驳船Greenstream如下西装码头526。

安特卫普港已经有一段时间，现在已经加紧准备，使LNG在港口的船只在一个安全，高效的方式，到2015年，当燃料的含硫量严格的IMO法规生效。委员会批准的补贴申请已经证明其信心LNG作为燃料的未来。

在今年3月，安特卫普港宣布，它正在主持一项倡议，专注于LNG作为船舶燃料的使用，“LNG推动下船只工作组”，已经建立的国际港埠协会的主持下（IAPH）世界港口气候倡议（WPCI）。

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2013年1月安特卫普港：港口管理局任命的分类公司挪威船级社加油船在港口的安全，高效的方式运作标准制定程序。
2012年12月：港口安特卫普分数比利时“第一”与卡车对舰加油的驳船Argonon中。
2012年3月港口管理局公布的规格的LNG加油船设计，由于是2015年投入运行，并能够满足对液化天然气的需求加油海轮舰艇。

Antwerp Port Authority has received positive news from the European Commission concerning its application for a subsidy for LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas). The subsidy will mainly be used to develop and build an LNG bunkering station for barges in the port of Antwerp.

The preparatory study work for the LNG bunkering station has already started, and the objective is to have the station in operation by the end of 2015. Meanwhile, several months after the first barge, theArgonon, bunkered with LNG in the port of Antwerp, the barge Greenstream follows suit at quay 526.

The port of Antwerp has for some time now been preparing intensively to make LNG available to vessels in the port in a safe, efficient way by 2015, when the stricter IMO regulations for sulphur content of fuels come into force. By approving the subsidy application the Commission has demonstrated its confidence in LNG as the fuel of the future.

In March this year, the Port of Antwerp announced it is chairing an initiative focusing on the use of LNG as a marine fuel, an “LNG Fuelled Vessels Working Group”, which has been established under the auspices of The International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH)’s World Ports Climate Initiative (WPCI).

Timeline: LNG in the port of Antwerp
January 2013: the Port Authority appoints the classification company Det Norske Veritas to draw up procedures for an operational standard for bunkering vessels in the port in a safe, efficient way.
December 2012: the port of Antwerp scores a Belgian “first” with truck-to-ship bunkering of the barge Argonon.
March 2012: the Port Authority publishes specifications for design of an LNG bunkering vessel, due to be operational by 2015 and able to meet the requirements for LNG bunkering of seagoing ships.