{"id":5956,"date":"2026-04-25T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/5956\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T16:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:57:11","slug":"air-products-rotterdam-hydrogen-plant-passes-65-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/5956\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Products&#8217; Rotterdam Hydrogen Plant Passes 65% Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shipandbunker.cdn.speedyrails.net\/a\/img\/_asp_161bb0c7586ba92b56b94de4fdb7e91d.v.652.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"100%\" alt=\"Air Products' Rotterdam Hydrogen Plant Passes 65% Completion\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe plant is expected to be operational by 2027. Image Credit: Air Products<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tAir Products has completed more than 65% of construction on its new liquid hydrogen facility at the Port of Rotterdam, with start-up planned for 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe plant is set to become the largest liquid hydrogen facility in Europe, expanding supply to meet growing demand from sectors including maritime, aviation, mobility and industrial processing, Port of Rotterdam said in a statement on its website on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIntegrated with the company\u2019s existing hydrogen network in Rotterdam, the site will supply customers across Benelux, France, Germany and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cAs Europe\u2019s largest port and a key energy hub, Rotterdam is committed to enabling the development of Europe\u2019s hydrogen economy,\u201d Boudewijn Siemons, CEO of the Port of Rotterdam Authority, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWhile the use of hydrogen to power ships is still at an early stage, it is seen as a potential future fuel to help the shipping sector decarbonise. A <a href=\"https:\/\/shipandbunker.com\/news\/apac\/897378-japanese-first-hydrogen-fuelled-tugboat-delivered\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese hydrogen-powered tugboat<\/a> was launched last year as part of efforts to test the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Ship &amp; Bunker News Team<br \/>To contact the editor responsible for this story email us at <a href=\"http:\/\/shipandbunker.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#f89d9c918c978ab88b90918899969c9a8d96939d8ad69b9795\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The plant is expected to be operational by 2027. Image Credit: Air Products &#13; Air Products has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3518,3532,3534,3535,3520,3537,3521,3529,3517,822,3536,3538,6,3533,41,3539],"class_list":{"0":"post-5956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rotterdam","8":"tag-alternative-fuel-marine-power","9":"tag-bunker","10":"tag-bunker-fuel","11":"tag-bunker-indications","12":"tag-bunker-markets","13":"tag-bunker-news","14":"tag-bunker-prices","15":"tag-bunkering","16":"tag-decarbonization","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-marine-fuel","19":"tag-marine-news","20":"tag-netherlands","21":"tag-prices","22":"tag-rotterdam","23":"tag-shipping-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}