Axpo delivers its 100th LNG cargo to Europe

Switzerland’s Axpo has delivered its 100th cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe since January 2020.

According to a statement by Axpo on Monday, the firm delivered these LNG cargoes between January 2020 and September 2024, with the bulk going to terminals in Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal.

The total volume of LNG amounted to 76.07 terawatt hours (TWh), enough to provide power to the equivalent of around 4.7 million homes in a year, Axpo said.

During the 2023/24 financial year alone, Axpo imported 25 LNG cargoes into Europe, equivalent to 16.2 TWh.

Axpo is active across the midstream and downstream natural gas and LNG sector in Switzerland and abroad.

For nearly 20 years, the company has actively traded and transported gas across Europe.

For more than a decade, these activities also included LNG, according to Axpo.

Customers range from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to large energy-intensive industrial companies, it said.

Axpo’s LNG unitsupplies LNG to industrial clients.

The company is currently expanding its LNG operations into bunkering, chartering small-scale vessels for this purpose.

LNG bunkering allows the ship-to-ship and ship-to-truck transfer of LNG.

Bunkering is an increasingly important growth area for Axpo as LNG offers a cleaner and more competitive alternative to fuels traditionally used in the maritime sector, the company said.

“Axpo’s natural gas and LNG activities have continued to thrive over the past years and play an important role in providing a secure energy supply to our customers. Gas is a key bridging fuel, providing the diversification needed during the energy transition as renewable energy technologies gain scale,” Axpo’s head of trading and sales Domenico de Luca said.

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