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Wed 12 Sep 2012, 14:12 GMT

Vopak to raise Rotterdam capacity by 0.5m cubic metres


Expansion project is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

Tank storage operator Royal Vopak is set to expand its capacity at the port of Rotterdam by over 500,000 cubic metres (cbm).

Vopak confirmed in April that it had decided to expand its storage capacity at Vopak Terminal Europoort for middle distillates by 400,000 cbm with the addition of eight new tanks.

The current storage capacity of the terminal, already the world's largest, is 3.3 million cbm.

The expansion is part of the MiDEx Greenfield-project. The tanks are being constructed by Verwater, a specialist in storage tank maintenance and construction.

Besides the tanks, a pumping station and connecting pipelines are also included in the construction contract. The expansion project is scheduled to be completed in February 2013.

At Vopak Terminal Vlaardingen, 52,000 cbm of tank storage capacity will be replaced by 140,000 cbm for the storage of vegetable oils and biodiesel.

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