Facts & Figures
Technical details:
- Location: Maasvlakte, port area in Rotterdam
- Size of site: 35 hectares
- Three storage tanks
- Three jetties
- Three loading sites for road tankers
- LNG throughput capacity: 12 bcm/year
- Net tank capacity: 180,000 m3. Gross tank capacity: 200,000 m3
- Tank dimensions: 40 metres high at the sides and 55 metres in the centre, diameter approximately 86 metres
- Type of tank: ‘full containment’ (double-walled with steel inner tank, thick thermal insulation and concrete outer tank)
- Loading speed (unloading capacity): 12,500 m3/hour LNG
- Vessels: all standard-type LNG carriers including the largest LNG carriers in the world with a capacity of approximately 270,000 m3, up to 350 metres in length and a draught of approximately 12.5 metres
- Start of terminal operations: September 2011