Europe’s largest bunkering port and home of the Gate LNG import terminal reported LNG bunkering volumes of 267,454 cubic meters in the January-March period, up by 2.4 percent year-on-year.
This marks the second-highest quarterly LNG bunkering volumes following record 331,620 cbm in the third quarter of 2025, according to the data.
In addition, the port said that vessels bunkered 15,260 cbm of bio-LNG in the first quarter, marking a new quarterly record, following 11,932 cbm in the previous quarter.
Including bio-LNG, vessels bunkered 1,010,555 cbm of LNG at the port of Rotterdam last year, a rise of 7.3 percent compared to 2024.
The port noted that bioblended LNG was supplied on a “significant scale” for the first time in the first quarter of this year.
Overall, bunker sales in the port of Rotterdam were approximately 25 percent lower in the first quarter of 2026, it said.
The largest decline occurred in the fossil fuel oil segment, particularly VLSFO (-44 percent), HSFO (-25 percent), and ULSFO (-13 percent).
The port said that the effects of developments in the Strait of Hormuz are not yet reflected in the bunker figures for the first quarter of 2026.
“These are expected to become more visible in the bunker statistics of the second quarter,” it said.
It is worth mentioning here that Dutch partners Gasunie and Vopak have recently taken a final investment decision to build the fourth jetty at their Gate LNG terminal in the port of Rotterdam.
The new jetty will serve the LNG bunkering market.
The total investment in the project will reach 88 million euros ($104 million), with a planned start-up date at the end of 2028.
