'Connect 2025’ is the strategic plan which sets out the North Sea Port ambitions for developing the cross-border port area in the years to come. Key to this development is North Sea Port’s commitment to economic development and employment, sustainability and climate, and to build a sound financial foundation.

The port authority will play a decisive role as connector in their special relationships with companies, public authorities and local communities. To this end, the port authority will focus on their three core activities: developing industrial sites and infrastructure, nautical services and their role of connector in the port area.

Daan Schalck, CEO of North Sea Port, says: "As a top 10 European port, North Sea Port faces significant challenges and opportunities in energy transition, circular economy, climate, logistics chain, port infrastructure and digitisation. The port authority will take on these challenges and our specific role is the role of connector. The clear objectives of the strategic plan will give shareholders and local residents confidence in the course that North Sea Port has set and provide security for the large investments of companies."

In order to strengthen its market position, North Sea Port will be concentrating its efforts on seven spearhead sectors: chemicals, steel, building materials, energy, automotive, food and feed and value added logistics. North Sea Port has defined eight programmes to deliver the strategic plan in order to become a top Western European port. They are focused on the circular economy, energy transition, climate, strong logistics chains, port infrastructure, digitisation, working with local communities and being a connector of numerous collaborating parties.

Schalck adds: “By targeted choices, creating support and setting ambitious goals, we want to achieve concrete results with social added value as a connector towards 2025. We will develop 150 hectares for the circular economy, increase the reuse of CO2, continue our growth as Western Europe’s leading hydrogen cluster, work to strengthen electrification, make the logistics chain more sustainable, build infrastructure in consultation with businesses and the authorities and support increased digitisation."

One of those eight programmes is ‘investing in energy projects. North Sea Port has the ambition to be a hub in the European hydrogen network. Switching to low-CO2 hydrogen will be required if the most energy-intensive clusters such as steel and chemicals are to become climate-neutral. The aim is to import green hydrogen and attract large-scale local hydrogen production. This will require infrastructure, such as pipelines to distribute the hydrogen between companies in the port area and connection to the 'backbone' linking other European ports and industrial areas.

The substantial local demand for hydrogen and the favourable central location of North Sea Port should enable it to become a hydrogen hub within the European network. By 2025, 500 MW of green electricity will be converted into hydrogen in the port area every year. The landing of offshore wind energy and further development of the high-voltage grid (380 kV) are essential if the entire port cluster is to be supplied with green electricity. This electrification is essential for the local production of green hydrogen. Electrification will also enable shore power for shipping.

In order to secure these market investments, parties need to find each other and work together. To help them do so, North Sea Port will play the role of connector between companies, utilities, public authorities and civil society organisations. This way, the port authority can connect individual solutions of companies with the common interest of climate investments.

A balance between a commitment to employment, sustainability and solid finances will provide a foundation for the further development of North Sea Port as a European port.

The Port of Antwerp has been at the forefront of supporting port players to digitize and share data thereby improving efficiency and sustainability through its NxtPort data platform. Now it is time to allow other ports and communities to reap the benefits of adopting a neutral data sharing platform that supports port and supply chain digitization.

NxtPort International is leading this effort by sharing their learnings with other ports interested in becoming "smarter". The platform's technology is based on 5 golden principles around data security and governance, platform neutrality, low entry barriers and co-creation. Separating the data backbone from the value adding services allows NxtPort to remain neutral, allowing data providers and users the freedom to decide with whom to digitally connect.

NxtPort ensures that the data is secure (ISO27001) and that data providers remains in control of their data. The digital marketplace allows software vendors to market their services globally, reaching a larger number of buyers through NxtPort Internationals registered offices in the US and Singapore.

NxtPort International believes in the power of co-creation. That is why its credo is to "unleash the Power of Together!" When port players have a common goal in which everybody wins, a digital solution has a higher chance of success. It also generally means that resources are more effectively allocated as players are not separately developing the same solutions.

The team at NxtPort has vast experience is assisting in co-created use-cases and can help parties to look for the right players to collaborate with. In 2022, NxtPort International aims to grow its marketplace by adding 50+ independent software vendors, allowing interested parties / ports to find a solution for any problem in their supply chain.

On top of this, NxtPort's goal is to have 10 other ports / communities adopt the data sharing platform to stimulate data sharing within their port, making it more attractive for business. Finally, NxtPort International will focus its efforts on supporting digital solutions focused on achieving the industry's sustainability goals. 

The Port of Amsterdam aims to be at the forefront of the energy transition and wants to be a climate neutral port by 2050. Its established position as a formidable, international energy hub means it has the infrastructure, the partners and the knowledge and experience to be a catalyst for new, sustainable energy products.

Earlier this year the Port of Amsterdam has joined forces with Evos, Electriq Global, Hydrogenius and Hysilabs under the initiative ‘H2Gate’ to investigate the technical and commercial feasibility of importing and storing hydrogen on an industrial scale. The partners will develop a blueprint for an import, storage, distribution and trading hub, with a throughput capacity of 1 million tonnes of hydrogen a year.

The three specialist companies have all developed their own liquid hydrogen fuel carriers – Electriq Global produces Eletriq Fuel, Hydrogenious has developed Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carrier (LOHC), and Hysilabs is the developer of HydroSil. H2Gate will explore hydrogen carrier technologies as a way to overcome the challenges of transporting and storing compressed and cooled hydrogen. Further studies into the design of the hub, including pilot projects, may follow the main feasibility study.

The Port of Amsterdam is fully committed to invest in sustainable sources of energy over the coming years. It has historically been an energy port and is firmly committed to solar, wind, biofuels, and hydrogen as well. The Port is currently working with Nouryon and Tata Steel on research into 100MW water-electrolysis system, which will produce up to 15,000 tonnes of hydrogen a year. The initial unit will use renewable electricity, which will enable a carbon saving of up to 350,000 tonnes of CO2 per year, equivalent to the emissions of over 40,000 households.

As well as being a sustainable energy hub, the Port of Amsterdam is working to become a faster and smarter port. The Port is investing in technological developments through the Digital Port programme, with a view to optimising the port’s logistics.

The Port first introduced its Digital Port Programme in 2017. By making data available using digital services, the port became more transparent for users and was able to handle vessels more quickly and intelligently.

The port was also the first to create a test zone for aquatic drones and more recently trialled a new monitoring system to explore drone usage in its airspace. Plus the Port of Amsterdam has adopted a cybersecurity programme to strengthen security, increase digital resilience and improve communications on cyber threats.

The Port of Amsterdam has a strategy to be a leading sustainable seaport by 2025. Its goals include ensuring 12.5% of its storage capacity will be used for alternative fuels, reducing CO2 emissions by 10% and ensuring 95% of all seagoing ships arrive and depart from the port on time.

Port of Opportunities

The Port of Rotterdam has been awarded the status of ‘best port infrastructure in the world’, by the World Economic Forum for seven years in a row.

The Port is now working with the business community and the Government to create a future-proof port. It has developed a three step strategy to become a carbon-neutral and circular port as well as bringing the port in-line with the Paris Climate objectives.

Step one: efficiency and infrastructure (re-using port heat and capturing and storing CO2 under the North Sea. Step two: energy transition (industry will switch to electricity, hydrogen and green hydrogen). Step three: new materials and fuel system (replacing fossil raw materials by sustainable alternatives).

Energy transition

Hydrogen will form a big part of the energy transition and the Port of Rotterdam is working with various partners towards the introduction of a large-scale hydrogen network across the port complex, making Rotterdam an international hub for hydrogen production, import, application and transport to other countries in Northwest Europe. The hydrogen hub will enable Rotterdam to maintain its position as an important energy port for Northwest Europe as well as enabling the port to play a leading role internationally. The port is working together with partners on the realisation of plants for the production of green hydrogen (based on electrolysis) and blue hydrogen as well as a pipeline for the transport of hydrogen through the port complex.

Digital transformation

The Port of Rotterdam Authority’s digitisation initiatives either concern the better control and management of the port and port infrastructure or the initiative revolves around improved insight into the efficiency of logistics processes.

Portmaster is just one of the digital solutions developed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority in recent years. Portmaster is a management system at the heart of the operations that take place in a port. Based on big data and artificial intelligence, it provides extremely accurate information about, among other things, vessel times of arrival and departure. Dashboards can be used to track the operational KPIs and monitor safety and sustainability performance of the port. Notable issues or incidents are quickly registered using the system. Portmaster can also keep track of information about cargo - which cargo is on board, or, in the case of cruise ships, how many people are on board. Operational details can be easily tracked and reported, which also improves the transfer of information between different shifts and departments.

Circular economy

Between the period 2016-2020, the port of Rotterdam managed to reduce its CO2 emissions by 27% to 22.4 million tonnes. In terms of size and location, the Port of Rotterdam is strategically well-positioned to develop into a circular hub. The local industry, logistics sector and surrounding region are all major consumers of raw materials and generates a wide variety of waste flows.

The Port of Rotterdam encourages innovation by attracting new circular initiatives and scaling start-ups. CO2 transport and storage Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the cheapest ways to meet the climate targets in the short term.

Port of Rotterdam CO₂ Transport Hub and Offshore Storage (Porthos) is developing a project to transport CO₂ from industry in the Port of Rotterdam and store this in empty gas fields beneath the North Sea. The CO2 that will be transported and stored by Porthos, will be captured by various companies. The companies will supply their CO2 to a collective pipeline that runs through the Rotterdam port area. The CO2 will then be pressurised in a compressor station. The CO2 will be transported through an offshore pipeline to a platform in the North Sea, approximately 20 km off the coast. From this platform, the CO2 will be pumped in an empty gas field. The empty gas fields are situated in a sealed reservoir of porous sandstone, more than 3 km beneath the North Sea. Porthos will store around 37 Mton CO2, approximately 2.5 Mton CO2 per year for 15 years, starting in 2024.

Indian Oiltanking is a professional, technical and logistics solution provider with domain expertise in terminalling, build services and renewable energy. Since its inception in 1997, it has combined the strength and reputation of parent companies – Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOC), India and Oiltanking, Germany.

Indian Oiltanking’s Terminal at Raipur is India’s first inland terminal on a common-user basis, challenging the notion that terminals are captive assets of particular Oil Marketing Companies (OMC).

The terminal is a recipient of many awards under various categories at the national & international levels of business including the prestigious Golden Lighthouse Award – 2018 & Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Management of Health & Safety by Indian Chemical Council - 2020 Our Safety culture is one of the prime focus areas and the same is ensured by participation across all levels.

For emergency communications too, public announcement systems are used to avoid a time lag. Every activity is started with a short safety talk and by performing a job safety analysis. Customised training programmes are organised for contract employees.

A software-based approach is followed for accident/incident/near-miss investigations. A rich database is available along with world-class subject matter experts to analyse trends and specific events, to share lessons learned. Various awards have been constituted to motivate employees, such as Best Employee, Best Contract Worker Award, Best Contractor, Best Stakeholder, Feather on the cap award, Best High Potential Near Miss Reporting, Best safety improvement suggestion award, Best Root Cause Analysis Award etc.

To ensure a safe and comfortable work atmosphere, IOT follows the systems of scheduled periodical in-house and external training, induction training, HAZOP study, QRA, HIRA, JSA, Hazardous Area classification, Pre-Startup Safety Review (PSSR), weekly / monthly inspections, lux level study, HIRA, cross-functional safety audit, external safety audit, regular management safety walks, Management of Change (MOC) environment monitoring etc.

At IOT Raipur, workplace monitoring is also done at various locations with results being recorded, documented and maintained by engaged Ministry of Environment Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) approved laboratory.

The terminal is provided with an Oil Water Separator (OWS) with an online measurement & alarm for treated water oil content. The terminal has achieved 100% of company and contract employees health and safety-related training since inception. A well-equipped OHC operates round the clock with paramedic staff.

All the employees are trained in first aid & have undergone live fire-fighting training at a reputed institute. Apart from periodic medical checkups special checkups and examinations are also conducted based on the exposure to chemicals and for persons working in hazardous areas.

A hygiene survey and quantitative assessment of gases and fumes at various locations are also conducted. A biological monitoring programme is conducted periodically for employees working at petroleum handling areas under which urine phenol is estimated.

Use of newer strategies

1. Removing VOC’s from the workplace – Traditional tank truck loading gantries have top-loading resulting in the accumulation of harmful vapours in the workplace. This concern is addressed at Raipur terminal by providing bottom loading in tank truck which ensures there is no immediate release of harmful vapours in the workplace.

In fact, provision has been made to route vapours generated in the tank truck compartment to the vapour recovery unit (VRU) ensuring almost no vapours at the workplace. These strategies like bottom loading & having VRU are new in the Indian terminal business & IOT Raipur has pioneered it. To ensure safe operation the entire fleet of tank trucks is bottom loading only.

2. Reporting of events & conducting root cause analysis of each and every incident – Practice of reporting each event is followed to promote & establish a good safety culture. Access has been provided to employees to an online incident database for reporting.

3. HSSE Culture Survey – In 2019, IOT conducted the first global online survey on safety culture using a standardised questionnaire from the Hearts & Minds tool “Understanding Your Culture” (Energy Institute). The survey made it possible to determine the perceived safety culture at global, regional and local levels.

As a result, IOT ended up between the safety culture levels “Calculative” and “Proactive”. The Just culture programme has also implemented which primarily focuses on the investigation of behaviour by individuals in certain circumstances.

4. Deep dives reviews - These are not audits but a means of open discussions between the terminal management and the deep dive review team with the goal to identify local issues and to provide support in solving them. These are used to identify both short-term and long-term improvement potential and to determine measures to be taken.

5. STEP UP Projects: This is a behavioural based safety programme to create awareness and get more employee involvement in the HSSE management programmes.

IOT Management in Malaysia is the operator of Independent Oil Terminal (IOT) located in Kuching, Sarawak (Borneo). IOT manages the marine receiving, storage and distribution of bulk petroleum products. Types of products consist of unleaded gasoline 95 (ULG95), unleaded gasoline 97 (ULG97), automotive diesel oil (ADO), aviation jet fuel (Jet A-1), bituminous asphalt (Bitumen), palm oil methyl ester (PME), additives for refined petroleum as well as Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG).

The terminal facilities were incorporated back in 2006, with IOT management being appointed as the operator in 2007. The terminal operations, divided into two operations of bulk fuel management and LPG bottling facilities, have clocked 8,020,141 manhours with Zero Lost-Time-Injuries (LTI) as at 31st December 2019.

To date, terminal with its operations has achieved 8,723,102 manhours with Zero LTI. The terminal  encourages continual safety intervention, with empowerment towards all level of terminal personnel from top to bottom and vice versa.

The management enforces and practices HSSE policy including an anti-drug and anti-alcohol policy, adopting best practices as per industries standards i.e. Shell's Learning Before Incidents (LBI), Learning From Incident (LFI), Hazard Effect Management Plans (HEMP) and in the midst of certification of Occupational Safety Heath Management System ISO45001.

Terminal operations conduct safety campaigns such as Back-to-Basic and Goal Zeros as well as adopting safety cultures such as Life Saving Rules (LSR) and Zero-Tolerance Rules (ZeTo).

Embarking on digitalisation, HSSE web portal employing GSuites Google Sites have been developed, furthermore with an e-Permit-to-Work system implementation in the pipeline.

The management works closely together with customers from multi-national companies including the main stakeholders of the company, Petronas and Shell, to adopt the best safety practices and guidelines.

Koole Terminals encourages an outstanding culture of safety. Its employees work together to identify, eliminate, reduce and manage any safety and health risks associated with its activities.

Koole makes safety a priority and is continuously focusing on how to conduct its operations as safely as possible. The terminal has just launched a project called Isometrix, which it plans to roll out across its terminals. This is a central system that allows employees to register any incidents that occur. Koole can then use this information to help reduce any potential incidents at the terminal. Every fortnight the Management Board will discuss any incidents - if any have occurred. The Board discusses who the victim is, what has happened and the severity of the incident. Koole can then use this information to ensure the same incident doesn’t occur again.

Once up and running, Koole also plans to launch an app to make it even easier to record incidents and near-misses. Although slips, trips and falls are commonplace in every workplace, it is essential they are reported. By recording all near miss-incidents, Koole can ensure, they are investigated and improvements are made to make sure they don’t happen again.

Being the first independent bulk liquid fuels storage terminal in Antwerp more than 50 years ago, Vesta Terminal Antwerp has always put safety first and has incorporated the highest possible safety standards. It’s in the company DNA to continuously improve the safety levels at all its terminals.

Vesta's first duty is to make sure that its colleagues return home safely each and every day. Vesta voluntarily carries out extra safety audits, involving external parties in a safety awareness programme that has been running for years. This focuses on Last Minute Risk Analysis (LMRA) training for its employees and extensively communicating the importance of the stop-reflex in all operational activities. Vesta always tries to do better than it did the day before.

Commissioned in February 2015, Fujairah Oil Terminal FZC (FOT) is on its seventh year of operation with steady growth. Holding only 13% of Fujairah storage capacity, FOT contributes 30% throughput, the highest contributor in the port for the last 30 months and one of the busiest terminals in the region.

FOT also holds the records of the highest throughput (monthly) ever achieved by a single terminal in the history of The Port of Fujairah. Below are significant initiatives and solutions implemented at FOT:

1. Connectivity access to both cluster of matrices in Port of Fujairah: FOT has launched a major project to connect with second matrix (MM2) of the Port of Fujairah which will provide direct access to the VLCC berths as well as the terminals directly connected to it. Any expansion of Port Facilities (berths or terminals) shall be in MM2 side. This makes FOT the most connected and flexible terminal in the Port of Fujairah, having access to all berths and interconnected terminals within the port.

2. Fuel oil blending efficiency: FOT has installed the best blending system called Pulse Air System in fuel oil tanks that can blend the most difficult, complex, and diverse components in the shortest period. IMO2020 compliant LSFO blend has been very efficiently produced with heavy crude, fuel oil and gas oil. This system works with compressed air injection but in pulses, thus minimising the vapour emission. Across the whole Middle East, this unique system is available only in FOT.

3. Gas oil injection to fuel oil system: To meet customer’s needs to blend LSFO with gas oil, FOT has installed an innovative system whereby gas oil can be safely injected into the fuel oil system, without the possibility of contamination at the interface infrastructure. 

4. Minimise operational impact on the environment: FOT has implemented different initiatives/solutions to reduce the impact on the environment, for example, installation of closed centralised venting systems and knock out drums etc.

5. Energy management system: FOT is the first terminal in the Port of Fujairah to obtain ISO 50001 as the company seeks to improve on energy consumption. This has driven the company’s focus on changing lighting bulbs to LED, installing VFD on exiting pumps and considering these functions for upcoming upgrades or projects, installation of natural lighting and ventilation in the office buildings and installation of solar energy for illuminations. Energy meters have been installed in pumps to monitor and control the power consumptions.

6. Innovative maintenance programmes: FOT has invested heavily in Asset Integrity Management System (AIMS) and carried out Risk Based Inspection (RBI) assessment of the entire facility to minimise the breakdown and guarantee uninterrupted operation. Intelligent pigging has been carried out to confirm the integrity of pipelines.

7. Usage of dedicated solutions and digital innovations for enhanced safety performance: dedicated safety software like INTELEX with integrated modules like MS/RA, permit-to-work, LOTO, incident investigation, management of change, safety observations reporting including behaviour safety aspects, action tracking tool and document control system, help FOT to accomplish this goal.

Digitalisation of specific safety critical processes, like daily terminal shift inspections, are taken care of by the software tool Capptions. This is combined with ATEX approved handheld devices for the field staff to register the inspection checklist, escalate anomalies found in the field immediately to their colleagues and management for devising adequate control measures.

To ensure the lone working employees are safe in the Port of Fujairah and at the FOT terminal, a monitoring system in the CCR is installed to follow the whereabouts of an individual on site by GPS radio tracking system. In case of an emergency, “man down” function is available in the equipment.

All pig systems are being upgraded with sequential locking mechanism to ensure avoidance of unintentional migration or release of hydrocarbons.

8. Best customer service: The synergetic composition within customer service and operations teams ensure that the customers are attended round the clock promptly, by utilising systems like Qino. Issues that need escalation are promptly handled by the management. 

9. Control of operational staff exposure during COVID-19 situation: 100% staff are fully vaccinated and there have been no cases so far. The major chunk of exposure was the high-risk sectors’ crew: ship, port, inspection companies, the shipping agencies, and the contractors. FOT has incorporated online communication with ship crew for all operations, which means no terminal staff board the ship. Inspectors, agents or contractors are kept away from close proximity. All communications (including documents exchanges) and trainings are arranged online.

The Exxonmobil Yarraville has just installed new diesel loading infrastructure. Diamond Key International (DKI) provided its Digital Twin service to Yarraville terminal. The DigitalTwin service was able to identify and quantify the outcome of various improvements. One of the many scenarios proposed was that the terminal could achieve a 10% reduction in total loading time by adding three diesel bottom loading arms to the Bay 8 of Yarraville’s loading gantry.

These new diesel arms have now been turned into a reality. Best of all, the benefit is directly passed onto the oil major customers, thus giving Yarraville Terminal a real and compelling competitive advantage.

DKI’s DataAnalytics leverages its understanding of the fuels distribution supply chain and is tailor built to optimise fuel terminal operations. 

Rubis Terminal Rotterdam was designed to become a “zero emission terminal”, a pioneer in this field. This decision, taken in 2008, ahead of the environmental legislation at that time, required the treatment of chemical vapours generated from the handling of the liquid products in order to ensure zero direct emission of vapours into the atmosphere.

The intention of this policy is to treat all the vapours coming from liquid products that are stored with a combination of state-of-the-art vapour treatment systems. Product vapours are created with fluctuating ambient temperatures (the day-and-night cycle called breathing) and by loading and unloading operations. In a tank, the vapour will take all the space left by the liquid.

Since not all vapours can go through the same treatment (being different in concentration or in chemical nature), Rubis started its activity with the use of a Regenerative Thermal Oxidizer to treat the vapours of heavy fuel oil products. This system remains a best available technology (BAT) in oxidation for high efficient treatment considering the limited amount of heat sustaining gas necessary.

For chemical products, a high-pressure supply fan forces exhausted vapours into recovery oxidizers. Inside their large furnaces, a gas fired burner heat up the vapours up to 850°C in order to oxidate the pollutant molecules in the combustion chamber. The recovery steam boiler of the oxidizer then absorbs the heat from the new clean, flue gas, to cool it before routing it into the atmosphere.

The steam produced is used to heat up Rubis' tanks as well as the office building, directly reducing the carbon footprint of the site. A quick start-up mechanism is performing with its metal fibre oxidizer to complete the recovery oxidizers to take the peak load above a certain level of vapour production. A last generation treatment has just been implemented in order to reduce the heat sustaining gas consumption. This consists of scrubbers using a fit-for-purpose solvent - the low concentration vapour mix downstream being directed to the existing regenerative oxidizer.

Vapours that are not compatible for treatment with any other vapours are cleaned with water-based scrubbers. This machine uses water as a solvent to depollute vapours of contaminants like organic compounds, dust and other particulate matters.

This multiple system machinery is a major link in the chain of Rubis' storage activity, since every truck, vessel, barge or railcar coming to the site will be connected to a vapour treatment system. Over the years, due to the expansion of the terminal, Rubis added two extra thermal oxidizers.

In terms of efficiency, regenerative thermal oxidizer and recovery oxidizer emissions are below the detection limit - less than 3 mg/m3 are providing a maximum 1 or 2 ppm at 3% O2 on dry gas. The results are highlighted with an intensity KPI of 4.75kgCO2/ton of throughput out for a fully treated emissions terminal.

Another technique Rubis improved over the time to reduce the formation of vapours produced by the breathing of the tanks is to build tanks with a higher-pressure rating. A bi-yearly measurement is executed to make sure that the maximum environmental VOC emission levels are not exceeded.

This is the main focus of Rubis' developments to limit its carbon footprint and to reduce the energy required to run its vapour treatment systems.

One option Rubis is considering is to use hydrogen as an alternative sustaining gas to limit the use of natural gas or, option 2, preventing the formation of vapours by building an internal floating roof to isolate the liquid from the free space in the tank so no vapours are evaporating.

Of course, whenever better adapted, Rubis proposes vapour treatment by activated coal beds. In 2020, the vapour of 26 different types of chemicals were treated in its vapour treatment systems, with a 99.9% efficiency.

Using innovative technologies to reduce its environmental footprint is the core of Rubis' activity in Rotterdam. In 2010, Rubis built a terminal in Antwerp as a joint venture following the same scheme.

These choices imply large investments, but it is always easier and more economical to do the investments at the construction of a new terminal than to transform an already functioning one.Apart from being a pioneer, Rubis' chemical customers require more and more vapour treatment for their products and deeply appreciate the efforts Rubis Terminal makes for a cleaner environment.

These sites became Rubis' experiment area to implement best practices. Innovation needs to favour ecology to transform and maintain its activity and to meet the present and future needs of Rubis' customers.

Navigator is the UK’s leading transport, storage and handling experts for chemicals, gas, biofuels, and fuels and operates a network of four strategically located terminals around the UK – near London, in South Wales, and two on Teesside – with a total storage capacity of 1.28 million m3. The sites are all located at major UK ports and serve major demand centres.

Navigator is executing an ambitious diversification and growth strategy, with dedicated resource and funding to enable our current and future customers to realise the potential of the energy transition. The overarching agenda is to become the number one provider to the UK future energy carriers and emissions reduction market by 2030.

One of the locations that holds great potential for the Energy Transition is Navigator’s Teesside location, with two neighbouring terminals on the River Tees with over 860,000 m3 of storage. It currently has road and sea import and export capability and will soon complete a major rail upgrade project. Navigator’s Teesside assets are fully integrated into the UK’s largest chemical cluster.

Navigator is actively supporting and developing concepts for several carbon capture and storage and hydrogen projects. The UK government recently selected the East Coast Cluster, a carbon capture and storage scheme located in the same locations as Navigator’s Teesside terminals, to allow the development of a carbon capture cluster, and a route to decarbonise existing industrial clusters and attract new, low carbon projects.

Navigator Terminals has developed a concept for the UK’s first-of-a-kind multi-model CO2 receiving, processing and transport hub, to enable CO2 shipping and broaden the reach of the carbon capture, and play a role in the development of a CO2 shipping market.

Navigator has also signed its first collaboration agreement with one of the companies in the East Coast cluster, 8 Rivers, which is developing the Whitetail Clean Energy Net Zero Power Station on Teesside, which will be operational by 2026. As well as producing power, 8 Rivers is developing technology that can produce clean hydrogen and ammonia, whilst capturing all of its carbon emissions.

Navigator is also developing concepts for the storage of green and blue hydrogen, to support the UK to decarbonise domestic heat by blending hydrogen into the natural gas supply to up to 4.4 million homes. Navigator is supporting the project with specialist technical and asset solutions, as part of the long-term approach to decarbonisation, enabling the everyday activities of the UK population to contribute to net zero.

Exolum is the leading company engaged in liquid product logistics in Europe and one of the most important companies in its sector worldwide.

The company operates in eight countries (Spain, Oman, UK, Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, Ecuador and Panama) and its 2,300 staff manage 6,000 km of pipelines as well as 68 terminals and 45 aviation facilities for jet fuel summing together more than 11 million cubic meters of storage capacity.

In Spain, Exolum's largest terminal is in Torrejon de Ardoz, in Madrid. The terminal has a storage capacity of 1.2 million cubic meters  with 10 loading bays and 36 loading arms. It is also is the centre of the operations of the company in the country as (i) the pipelines central dispatching, (ii) the centralized terminals control centre and (iii) the central laboratory are also located within the perimeter of the terminal.

The users of the terminal benefi from storing and being able to withdraw several grades of gasolines and diesel, quality additives and, since many years ago, biofuels like biodiesel and ethanol, which are respectively transported through the pipeline network or delivered by truck to the depot.

Exolum is adapting its operations and services in line with the energy transition and one of its key commitments is to become a carbon-neutral company. Exolum wants to contribute to the achievement of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Its primary aim is to reduce the company’s greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2025, making it a carbon-neutral company by 2050.

In addition to reduce the impact of its operations in the environment, another of its current objectives is the development of efficient solutions for its customers to respond to the challenges arising from decarbonisation. Plus, the need to develop a circular economy aligned with the energy transition policies being launched at EU and national levels.

To continue on this road toward diversification and the search for business opportunities in new sectors or industries, in 2020 Exolum established the “Ventures” business unit devoted to the development of new business models in the energy and circular economy industries as well as to foster innovation and entrepreneurship.

The new business unit is also levering on the strategic location and reputation of the Torrejón terminal and supporting its development as the flagship terminal within the group by incorporating new services impacting also the carbon footprint of our customers.

In this sense the terminal supplies Sustainable Aviation Fuel SAF (Avikor platform) to Madrid – Barajas Airport and will start delivering green hydrogen in 2022 for mobility purposes.

The Avikor platform was launched in 2020 and allows end customers to reduce their flights´ carbon footprint by displacing mineral jet fuel by SAF that is directly pumped in the airport hydrant system from Torrejon terminal.

This pioneer service gives the option to customers to decide how green they want their flights to be through direct reduction of emissions. Avikor can be purchased directly from www.avikor.com and the company are engaged in discussions with airlines and on-line travel agencies that have shown interest on marketing the service through their commercial channels.

Additionally, this initiative has received the support from AENA (world's leading airport operator by numbers of passengers that manages general interest airports and heliports in Spain) and from ALA (the Spanish Airlines Association).

Exolum is currently building a green hydrogen facility at Torrejón terminal (“Hydrogen Henares project). The new infrastructure covers the full value chain including hydrogen production, storage, purification, compression and delivery. This facility will become the first one of its type in Madrid Region and will be able to deliver 60 tonnes of green hydrogen per year mainly for transportation purposes.

The production technology has been developed by the Portuguese company Fusion Fuel and it’s based on microlectrolysis which tends to be more competitive than the traditional production configuration. Exolum´s goal is to supply green hydrogen to buses, trucks, passengers’ cars, aviation refuelers/dispensers and logistics forklifts.

As indicated, the hydrogen facility is under construction and will be on line in the second half of 2022. Additionally, the company is exploring options for the hydrogen facility in Torrejon to become part of the hydrogen routes alliance that Exolum has promoted with Naturgy and Enagas under the name of Win4H2. Its objective is to develop an integrated network of hydrogen refuelling stations across Spain with connections to Portugal and France.

For this purpose, the Torrejón terminal has an ideal location given the high traffic of heavy transport fleets and logistics complexes around it, which could be some of the early-adopters industries of green hydrogen as a substitute for mineral fuels. All in all, the Torrejon terminal of Exolum perfectly qualifies to become the 'Terminal of the Future'.

Vesta Terminal Flushing is on the verge of transforming itself into the terminal of the future. Studies to upgrade and recommission two existing 30,000M3 ammonia tanks with a total storage capacity of 40,000 mtons have been carried out.

The objective is to convert the Vesta Flushing terminal into a distribution point for (green) ammonia next to the existing biofuels activities. Ammonia will become the number one carrier for hydrogen; is the feedstock for the growing fertilizer production, and a new transport fuel for E-vehicles.

Considering the developments in and around Flushing, the terminal will be an important access point into the Dutch Hydrogen backbone. Furthermore Vesta has started a pilot project to supply Vesta Terminal Flushing with green electricity through solar energy panels.

Biofuel expansions are contemplated to gradually replace the conventional oil storage. All to drive Vesta’s goal to contribute towards a more carbon neutral future.

Vopak Moda Houston is positioned to become the premier low-carbon ammonia and hydrogen terminal hub on the US Gulf Coast. It is the first greenfield terminal development in the Port of Houston in more than a decade.

Strategically located in Houston’s refining and petrochemical corridor, it has been built in close proximity to multiple ammonia, hydrogen and nitrogen pipelines. The terminal, which became operational at the end of 2021, is the only waterborne ammonia terminal in the Port of Houston with deepwater capabilities.

Vopak Moda Houston will provide a vital link in the new energy transition supply chain. The terminal is in active discussions with customers to provide logistics solutions for low-carbon products, including the storage and handling of green and blue ammonia, hydrogen and low-carbon bunkering. Vopak Moda Houston is a fully automated terminal that integrates the advanced safety technology. With a 30,000 tonne capacity, the terminal has 2 x 15,000 tonne tanks for refrigerated ammonia storage.

The terminal features newly constructed deepwater dock with advanced marine unloading and loading arms of 30,000 tonne capacity. With 14,285 barrels of total bullet tank capacity, the terminal also consists of five pressurised bullet tanks.

Vopak Moda Houston, which also manages a unit train rail loop served by three main rail lines, has completed construction of its rail infrastructure to store and handle pressurised gas for a global energy firm.

Formed in 2016, Vopak Moda Houston is a joint venture between Royal Vopak and Moda Midstream. The JV’s presence in the main industrial clusters makes it well-equipped to actively contribute to the development of new supply chains for the energy and feedstocks of the future.

If you ever visit Wagram Terminal, a subsidiary of Rubis Terminal, in Reichstett - apart from meeting people from one of the most welcoming areas of France, you will notice swans, water hens and herons next to the numerous tanks.

This vision might be confusing professionals of tank storage who are more used to industrial environments, but as a terminal built on the old Reichstett refinery land, inheriting a polluted soil and contaminated waters, the environmental matter has always been an industrial matter.

Rubis Terminal always has made a priority to act  on global topics including decreasing its ecological footprint, supporting biodiversity and fostering well-being at work. 2013 marks the beginning of its major revamping project in Reichstett. At this time, it was one of the largest national remediation worksites being engaged there to secure the remaining refinery installations already shut down, to empty all polluting liquid products, to remove asbestos and to treat soil and surface waters.

A land farming treatment area has been reactivated and a planted filter has been built. This planted filter forms an artificial swamp in the middle of its terminal. After making sure that the interruption of the extensive groundwater drainage used to protect the groundwaters allowed it to keep on managing a good underwater quality with its other rehabilitation works, the idea of recycling water through phytodepuration came up as a last link in the chain of its water treatment solution.

Phytodepuration is a technique consisting of artificially recreating a natural water purifying ecosystem using inert material, animal, specific aquatic plants, microorganism and its substrate. This thus created wetland, being now fully operational, ensures us a whole quality of the rainwater leaving the site via canals.

Another environmental dilemma it faced was that the terminal did not cover the entirety of the old refinery site Indeed, due to the prohibition law to conduct activities in the potential impact area of a Seveso site, part of the land would become improper to any conversion. This included a ten hectares polluted soil area.

Rubis Terminal decided not to let this parcel perish and it agreed with its partner Brownfields, a specialist in industrial site transformation, to find a way to redefine this ten-hectare area legally unbuildable. This new status would then enable Rubis to contribute in changing the land into a conservation area by partially financing the operation and becoming the ultimate owner once the remediation was completed.

In 2016, the Prefect of the Bas-Rhin region approved its partner request and issued a decree reconsidering this land as unbuildable. Very specific conditions were added to transform it into a wildlife sanctuary. This brownfields specialist company has committed to provide the necessary resources to transform the area conforming to the prefectorial decree conditions. An expert in ecology, senior lecturer at the University of Strasbourg, joined this effort to study the transformation of this abandoned zone.

To begin the project, heavy machinery was used to depollute the soil and groundwater. It was easier to create the wetland area in the meantime, as the digging got Rubis closer to the water table. The expert in ecology did an inventory of the already existing plant species and provided a list of recommended seeds for this localization.

In an effort to make this purposeful project impacting, the construction zone became an experimentation area for students in Ecology. A doctoral student started his thesis on Reichstett named “Monitoring and evaluation of former brownfields requalified as an environmental mitigation area: the study of the old Reichstett refinery.” His main experiments implied collecting data on the environmental gains of the sanctuary.

Rubis is pleased to announce the results, attesting that in restored replicates, leguminous species coverage vary between 68.8% and 90.8%. About the soil fauna communities, in one year, the class richness increased by 6-fold, the diversity by 4.5 and the number of individuals by 40.

Five years later, the green colour took over the brown colour of the soil as several plant species grew around the wetland, ducks offering us the sight of their ducklings, to the delight of its operatives.

Rubis Terminal is proud to share this outstanding project which has been achieved thanks to the mutual work of the local team, the University of Strasbourg and its partner Brownfields, specialist in industrial land remediation.

This project demonstrates the terminal's know-how and its capacity to readapt and transform SEVESO classified industrial sites with important environmental liabilities in an ecological approach. A strong element of societal responsibility attesting its vision of a terminal of the future.

Rubis provides its customers ecologically responsible services, using new techniques and technologies to recreate natural mechanisms, getting back to nature within the frame of an industrial activity.

Alkasah has made efforts to develop oil terminals in Libya. During the Libya war, many oil ports got shutdown and sabotaged. Under his lead, Alkasah installed the latest technology at several terminals (custody transfer measurement systems) replacing some outdated methods. These terminals included Marsa Brega, Essider Terminal Of Waha, Azzayway Refinery and many more. He also spread the knowledge of tanks management safety systems.

Alkasah proposed wireless technology. He made possible a significant reduction in installation costs for high precision Rosemount tank gauging  through the launch of Smart Wireless field communication. He also contributed in the design and sourcing of tank safety systems and valves.

The Libyan market is a challenging one. Developing opportunities and applying best practices to help end users with their terminal management is an outstanding achievement.

With over two decades of process automation experience, AnnCharlott Enberg has established herself as an extremely accomplished and renowned functional safety expert.

As a dynamic, results-driven leader, AnnCharlott has demonstrated success, not only in her current position as global functional safety manager with Emerson, but also in her previous roles as a CEO, business development director and SRE site process safety engineer at other companies.

Her key responsibilities as a corporate leader at Emerson include advising major companies within industries such as oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical and energy on the implementation of functional safety systems designed to manage risk and protect people, assets and the environment. Her focus has been to work closely with these industries to achieve their operational goals while reducing risk, and to help ensure safe processes, improve environmental sustainability and optimise personal/human design processes.

AnnCharlott’s work displays outstanding ability in a broad range of areas, including safety compliance, process engineering, business development and strategy, staff leadership and training, project management and engineering, risk assessment and quality assurance.

She has a wealth of knowledge and experience in communication and leadership, as well as safety management and corporate social responsibility management. In addition to regularly writing technical articles on best practice within functional safety for a broad range of leading global trade publications, AnnCharlott has also created numerous publications, guides and handbooks for Emerson on subjects such as safety instrumented systems, overfill prevention and proof-testing of level measurement instrumentation.

AnnCharlott attended the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where she attained an associate degree in mathematical statics and probability, and studied environmental activities in-depth. She later received an associate degree in fire prevention and safety technology from Lund University, and a bachelor’s degree in technical innovation and management from Chalmers University of Technology. In 2011, she achieved an associate degree in advanced project management, and three years later, an MBA from the PROBANA Business School.

Throughout her illustrious career, AnnCharlott has received numerous awards and accolades worldwide, that recognise her outstanding leadership and commitment to functional safety. In 2020, she was named global manager of the year by the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP). The IAOTP is an international networking organisation that handpicks its members from the world’s finest, most prestigious professionals in different industries.

In 2021, AnnCharlott received the IAOTP’s Empowered Woman of the Year Award at its annual awards gala in New York. This prestigious award recognises her years of experience, professional accomplishments, academic achievements, visionary leadership in her field, and ability to empower other women in male-dominated industries to reach their goals.

AnnCharlott was also featured in Top Industry Professional magazine in 2020, and became a member of the International Society of Female Professionals, while from the beginning of 2022 she will become a director of ISA SAFESEC, the safety and security division of the International Society of Automation. She is also a champion of equal rights, and is a member of both the Measurement Solutions Europe Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Council, and the Emerson Women’s Impact Network.

AnnCharlott attributes her success to her training, her perseverance and the mentors she has worked alongside. She is an active member of her community and devotes her spare time to educating children about water safety and teaching them how to swim. In the future, she is determined to continue lending her knowledge about safety and risk, while helping people enjoy their work and interests.

Her goals are to continue to make measurement devices easier to implement in safety instrumented systems, and to increase safety globally.

Bert van Dam learns by doing, and he does quite some stuff. From his engineering background, he worked in the tank terminal industry for various years on innovative projects and top level clients.

With this experience Bert leads the vertical team Tank Terminals at Siemens Digital Industries in The Hague.

In 2021, his team was awarded the international mandate for the tank terminal industry on the topic of digitalisation within Siemens. This “Centre of Competence” consists of various disciplines ranging from engineering to business consulting and Bert manages its global commercial approach.

Growing up and studying in Lithuania, Daiva later moved to Sweden to obtain her Masters in Finance.

In 2005 she commenced with Nordic Storage where she continues to work to this day. During her career Daiva has faced and overcome several challenges including learning Swedish to be able to fully immerse herself within the business and the region.

She entered a male-dominated industry and has exceeded at multiple roles within the company. Her consistent contribution to Nordic Storage is the exceptional passion for operational excellence that inspires those around her.

She fosters a culture of openness and cooperation and pushes others to do their best work and to achieve set goals.

Daiva demonstrates an extraordinary commitment to her organization and provides exceptional customer care, which makes her highly valued by customers and colleagues.

Nordic Storage (part of the HG Storage group) is one of the largest companies for bulk liquid storage in Scandinavia with over 1 million cubic metres of storage capacity, providing safe, reliable and responsible operations for customers ranging from international oil companies and traders to local oil companies and energy producers.

Effective January 2022, Daiva has been appointed as the new CEO of Nordic Storage to face the upcoming challenges and opportunities with an emphasis on sustainability and energy transition. She is one of the few senior female executives in the industry and continues to encourage both female and male colleagues alike to pursue their ambitions and to strive for excellence.

Leading an active lifestyle also outside of work, Daiva spends her spare time with her family, plays piano and tennis, and visits Lithuania where her parents have a honey producing bee farm.

Re-Gen Robotics was founded by Fintan Duffy in 2019. Years spent manually cleaning oil tanks, gave him the drive, passion and expertise to create a company that would take men out of tanks for good. For decades the industry had been calling for no man entry tank cleaning because they had no option but to use personnel to clean inside fuel tanks with highly explosive atmospheres, using breathing apparatus and chemical suits.

Most tanks owners had used some form of ‘robotic’ tank cleaning but invariably personnel had to enter the tank to fix ramps and complete the wash out of the tank manually.

Previous equipment was not fit for purpose and didn’t eliminate the significant HSE and commercial risks tank owners were exposed to. Responding to the rising number of confined space deaths, Fintan assembled a team with knowledge and understanding of the industry and after extensive research, designed a bespoke robotic cleaning service that eradicated the need for human entry into tanks.

Fintan is responsible for Europe’s first Zone 0, EX certified company, providing 100% no man entry robotic tank cleaning service and is instrumental in the development of a game changing solution to service oil tanks, unparalleled in terms of safety and delivery. To date he has invested £7 million in creating five purpose-built, Ex Zone 0 rated robots and tankers.

The robots are designed to fit through a standard 600mm entry hatch via an extending ramp and de-sludge, wash and clean large-scale tanks, including fixed roof, floating roof, coned floor and heavy fuel oil tanks.

Within less than a year of launching, Re-Gen Robotics won the Safety Technology Award at the 2020 Global Tank Storage Awards, recognised for revolutionising safety in the tank terminal industry. Fintan’s vision, to become the most efficient, safe and reliable tank cleaning service provider to the petrochemical industry, by completely eliminating confined space entry had come to pass. He says, “We can transform the safety of our sector, for good. Ensuring sound working practices is our highest priority at Re-Gen Robotics, to strive to protect people and the environment. “Our technological innovations and new ways of thinking are all revolutionising the approach we are taking to eliminate accidents, harm to people and to reduce the environmental impact of our operations.”

Fintan is now working with most of the UK’s oil majors, who have adopted his robots as their first and only preference for tank cleaning. They are fully committed to enhancing safety and productivity in their operations and when it comes to tank maintenance, these industry leaders are procuring his service, as part of their safety strategy.

They understand they are not only eliminating the dangers and liabilities associated with confined space entry but are also saving time, money and reducing operational downtime for their tanks; there are fixed costs, reduced paperwork and permits, and no requirement for capital outlay or standby rescue teams. Following the introduction of a range of ancillary tools last year, that have proven to reduce tank downtime during cleans even further, Fintan is complimenting his service with a cutting-edge, tank localisation mapping system. This is a major advantage for customers, as the tank will not be out of operation for any longer than it takes to clean it and decision makers can act quickly if a problem area is identified.

In the last 33 months, Fintan and his team have eliminated 10,000+ hours of CSE cleaning in tank cleans performed. Over 30 tanks consisting of white oil, black oil and distillate tanks in gas plants have been cleaned and he has completed the first worldwide, 100% no man entry tank cleans for oil majors such as Shell, P66 and Vermilion, among others.

Confined space man hours have been eradicated, leading to an overall reduction in both accidents and health and safety incidents on site. Nearly three years on, Fintan says it’s hard to fathom how far the oil tank cleaning industry has come. One of his biggest challenges was changing the industry mindset but with time, effort and by engaging with likeminded customers keen to enhance onsite safety, he has demonstrated to those with reservations, that we are irrefutably making tank cleaning an intrinsically safer, faster and smarter process.

Following a year of sustained growth, Re-Gen Robotics has created 12 new jobs and completed a state of the art headquarters with R&D facilities and service bays for robotic cleaning systems and tankers. In May this year, Fintan was successful in obtaining a United Kingdom Patent No. 2585311B, ‘Zero entry sediment removal from storage tanks’, for its fully contained robotic tank cleaning solution. Fintan is working hard on several new patents for Q1 2022 and is preparing to roll out his tank cleaning service and technology to customers across the globe.

The launch of the Bloomberg Terminal in 1982 forever changed how the world accessed financial information and gained actionable market insights. By contrast, such ease of access to real-time, accurate data and analytics was sorely missing from the tank storage industry as well as commodity markets as a whole.

Until recently, companies employed large teams of analysts to man a desk tasked solely with gathering reams of raw data and then trying to make sense out of this information. It was an archaic, costly and time-consuming process, with market intelligence in the hands of the few, not the many.

Co-founded by François Cazor, Kpler’s mission was to change this. With a background in trading, he had witnessed how transparent and well structured the information was in organised markets. Why then, could it not be the same for the tank storage industry and commodities in general?

Led by the vision of Cazor and his co-founder, Jean Maynier, the wider commodity markets were finally disrupted by Kpler in 2014. The Kpler Terminal became a pioneering solution based on a unique methodology that combined artificial and human intelligence. Much like Bloomberg’s product, the Terminal launched to inform industry professionals precisely what was going on in commodity markets, all in real-time - shifting the way intelligence is produced and consumed in commodity markets from manual to automated processes.

The Terminal initially provided intelligence on liquefied natural gas (LNG) and by 2019 crude storage was added to provide real-time data on the capacity utilisation of more than 700 crude storage facilities worldwide, which together represents a total capacity of more than 6.1 billion barrels.

Thanks to Cazor’s efforts, Kpler has fostered an unprecedented level of transparency that has benefited the storage industry as its data on storage utilisation is one of the most accurate in the world. Previously, outsiders found it extremely challenging to penetrate the sector as only a handful of actors previously had access to reliable information.

Due to the wealth of high-quality data available on the Kpler Terminal, inventories-tracking is now much more transparent, enabling organisations to drive new opportunities, monitor their competition, as well as make better-informed business decisions. This has enabled a level-playing field within the industry, whereby players of all sizes within the sector can make the most of consistent, reputable data at last. In addition, Cazor’s leadership has played a pivotal role in Kpler’s exponential growth since its foundation.

Unlike the majority of competitors within the industry, Cazor has built a wholly self-funded company that has never relied on a dollar of venture capital funding to grow, and its revenues are from its clients alone. In fact, it reached the significant milestone of generating $25 million in revenues and $35 million in bookings last year. He has also overseen the company’s transition from a startup to a global organisation within just seven years.

Kpler began with just two employees but now employs over 135 staff, across nine locations globally. It works with over 600 accounts and has over 5,500 users of the Kpler Terminal. Clients include industry giants like Mitsui, Chevron, AET Tankers, Litasco, Petrochina, JP Morgan, Saudi Aramco, Goldman Sach, SOCAR, Citadel and others (this non-exhaustive list is confidential). This sustained, self-funded growth highlights Cazor’s ongoing ambition to make Kpler the most trusted and market-leading data and analytics provider in the sector.

Akgun and his family have owned and run Ateco for over thirty years but it was Akgun who really raised the profile of the company through his engineering expertise and forward thinking to recognise the importance of the aluminum dome roof in the storage tank market.

Akgun introduced many innovative designs in the aluminum dome roof to make the Ateco aluminum dome roof an industry standard.

Akgun had the foresight to build a new designated aluminum dome roof manufacturing facility which is the largest such facility in the world.

Akgun is a true entrepreneur, an inspirational engineer and a gentleman who gives generously of his time to support and encourage anyone interested in making a career in the storage tankage business.

The professional knowledge and expertise that Jelle Bakelants brought to his organization from the very start of his career is nothing less than impressive.

Rarely do you come across someone who is so passionate about his work and so driven to continuously take the safety of terminals to the next level.

Bakelants manages to find a perfect compromise between listening to the feedback of others, the operational efficiency at Vesta's terminals and never compromising on safety.

His positive attitude and proactive thinking has a direct influence on his team enabling them to always perform at their best. 

Long before there were climate conferences, Anno was advocating not to waste products. Nowadays Anno has grown into a company contracted by several producers to assist them to find outlets that are legal and environmentally friendly. It all seems easy - but Bonami has been running around the world and knocking on doors for the last 20 years to tell its story.

Today, to convince a terminal operator to take such awkward spotloads, you need to be well educated on the subject and bring good documentation to the table to convince the technical manager of the terminal that what you are doing is the right thing. Visiting terminals and a clear eye of what is available or what is required is also an important part of the job.