KGAL Investment Management has acquired a 9,200sqm office property in the Netherlands on behalf of a pan-European fund. The €16.5bn asset manager said it has bought the Westerlaan 10 property in Rotterdam which serves the headquarters of Dutch tank-storage company Vopak until 2035. Financial details were undisclosed. André Zücker, managing director and head of real estate [...]
Dutch Gate terminal, a joint venture of Vopak and Gasunie, has taken initiatives to strengthen its position in the security of the LNG supply of Northwest Europe. Gate terminal to boost LNG capabilities Operational since 2011, Gate terminal’s initial capacity amount to 12 billion cubic meters per year (bcma) and can in the future [...]
The Port of Rotterdam could supply 4.6 million mt/year of hydrogen to Europe by 2030 from local production and imports, it said May 10. That would be a substantial share of the 20 million mt/year of European production and imports the EU targeted by 2030 under its recent REPowerEU package. The figure was based on [...]
Dutch oil and chemical storage company Vopak reported on Friday a profit beat for the three months to September but lowered its full-year guidance for growth investments. The group, which runs tank terminals worldwide, said its growth investments should reach about 275 million euros ($314.57 million) in 2021, down from the range of 300 million [...]
Dutch oil storage company Vopak (VOPA.AS) on Wednesday reported second-quarter net profit that missed market expectations, after taking an impairment related to its terminal in Panama, sending its shares down nearly 8%. The group, which operates storage terminals around the world, reported net profit of 76.1 million euros ($89.86 million) in the three months to [...]
Vopak is investing in the Port of Rotterdam for the storage of waste-based feedstocks for the production of biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel. The market for energy from renewable sources in Europe is rising as a result of the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive II. A total of 16 new tanks with a combined capacity [...]
Vopak’s Spanish joint venture Vopak Terquimsa is set to begin construction work on the second phase of its expansion project at the Tarragona terminal. With this second expansion, Vopak Terquimsa will see its capacity reach more than 40,000 cbm, reinforcing its already leading storage position in the Port of Tarragona. The expansion will take place [...]
Vopak on Friday said core earnings excluding exceptional items fell 7 percent in 2017 to 763 million euros ($957 million), but the Dutch oil and chemical storage company still beat forecasts and its shares rose sharply. Analysts polled for Reuters had on average expected earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), including joint ventures, [...]
Vopak’s Terminal Barranquilla in Colombia has received a Bonded Warehouse permit to store an additional 15,734 cubic metres of product without nationalizing. The company said this authorisation enables Vopak Colombia to better serve its customers. The Terminal Barranquilla is located near consumption and production centres and features some of the best infrastructure in the region. [...]
