Windcat Workboats will be able to bunker the Hydrocat 48 with hydrogen in the port of Ijmuiden as the IJmond Environmental Service, on behalf of Velsen Municipality, has granted the first hydrogen bunkering license in the Netherlands.
Bunkering hydrogen for vessels is a major development in increasing the sustainability of the ports of IJmuiden and Amsterdam and the wider shipping sector. Sailing on hydrogen contributes to the ambition of the Province of North Holland to be climate neutral by 2050. In collaboration with the IJmond Environmental Service, Port of IJmuiden NV, and Port of Amsterdam, Windcat Workboats has researched the necessary elements to make bunkering hydrogen possible.
“This license represents a major step in the possibility to use hydrogen as a fuel for vessels and increasing the sustainability of the sector,” said Willem van…