Shipping companies Dan-Unity and Victrol join forces to offer CO2 solution
Belgian shipping pioneer Victrol from Antwerp is to team up with the Danish CCS-specific shipping entity, Dan-Unity to offer solutions for the capture, transportation and storage of CO2 by rivers and sea. By 2025, both partners will build specific vessels for all types of waterways from mainland Northern Europe to utilization and storage facilities.
The companies want to collect the purified and liquefied CO2 with Belgian barges from CO2 emitters in Northern Europe and then transport it to the port of Antwerp or Rotterdam. There, Danish seagoing vessels will collect the CO2 and transport large volumes either for utilization or for storage.
As part of fighting climate change, both companies wanted to create a CO2 one-stop shop based on their experience in the transportation of gaseous cargoes. ‘In order not to have to pay a CO2 tax, the industry is currently investing in capturing CO2,’ explains Frederik Selhorst from Victrol. ‘CO2 is purified and cooled so that it can be transported as liquefied gas. We are now going to investigate how we can transport it as efficiently as possible’
Danish Dan-Unity CO2 also partnered up with Icelandic Carbfix to inject large volumes of CO2 from 2026 onward into the volcanic rock on the island, where it will be converted into stone through a natural process over two years.
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