The first test shipment of ammonia was brought in a tank container on board one of Hapag-Lloyd's vessels to HHLA's Container Terminal Altenwerder (CTA) in Hamburg.

The delivery results from the March 2022-signed agreement between HHLA and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, wanting to test the hydrogen supply chain from the United Arab Emirates to Germany.

The ammonia will be used by the Hamburg-based company Aurubis for test runs for the climate-neutral conversion of gas-intensive copper wire production.

More ammonia deliveries will be shipped to other customers in Germany in the coming months.

"We at HHLA are very proud to be part of the joint, successful development of a secure supply chain for hydrogen carriers from the United Arab Emirates to Germany. In order to use hydrogen and its derivatives as an energy carrier on a large scale in the future, we need a reliable, climate-neutral and efficient transport chain from the producing countries such as the United Arab Emirates to the German and European customers," Torben Seebold, Member of HHLA's Executive Board, commented.

HHLA says its CTA is climate-neutral, meaning that this part of the ammonia supply chain adds no emissions.

Photo: HHLA/Aurubis