Neste and HELLENiQ ENERGY, one amongst Southeast Europe’s main energy teams, accept as true with collaborated to carry blended Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel to HELLENiQ ENERGY’s facilities in Thessaloniki. It’s the most indispensable time that blended sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) is provided to Greece in bulk utilizing ships for transport.
The transport of the blended SAF will enlarge the provide and accessibility of sustainable aviation gasoline at airports all over Greece, providing airlines and passengers a technique to slash greenhouse gas emissions from air lumber. This transport is especially nicely timed, coinciding with the summer vacationer season, the largest length for the Greek economic system.
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SAF has been broadly acknowledged as a key lever in serving to to create aviation’s emissions good deal needs globally. Nonetheless, one amongst the challenges facing the alternate is the provide of SAF in sufficient portions. This partnership is a milestone as it marks the most indispensable time that SAF is being dropped at Greece in bulk by vessels as one more of trucks, which reduces transport emissions. This transport could be followed by others at some level of the remainder of 2024.
“HELLENiQ ENERGY used to be the most indispensable to salvage definite that that the provide of Neste’s sustainable aviation gasoline in Greece, already abet in 2022. The growth of the collaboration with Neste is according to our neighborhood’s strategic objective to alter into a provider of low-carbon energy solutions and to ceaselessly slash our carbon footprint. Our objective is to facilitate aviation gasoline suppliers, airlines, and airports to rearrange in a proactive manner for the upcoming European Union SAF mandate targets starting in 2025. This effort began two years within the past when our subsidiary EKO began for the most indispensable time in Greece supplying AEGEAN aircraft with SAF for flights departing from Thessaloniki Airport “Makedonia”, making it the seventh airport on this planet where a SAF-fueled flight used to be realized. Now, this effort is increasing to all of the alternate in Greece with even bigger volumes, and at extra airports”, acknowledged Diomidis Stamoulis, Senior Director Strategic Planning of Industrial Actions & Participations at HELLENiQ ENERGY.
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“Sustainable aviation gasoline is a readily readily available solution for lowering the greenhouse gas emissions from air lumber. This cooperation with HELLENiQ ENERGY to kind our SAF to Greece no longer simplest illustrates our dedication to supporting airlines within the Southeast European region nonetheless additionally the significance of cooperation with formidable companions to enlarge SAF availability and adoption. We’re awaiting further constructing our cooperation with HELLENiQ,” acknowledged Alexander Kueper, Vice President Renewable Aviation Industrial at Neste.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Sustainable aviation gasoline is a renewable aviation gasoline providing a extra sustainable alternative to venerable, fossil-basically based jet gasoline. The spend of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by up to 80%* over the gasoline’s life cycle, when put next with utilizing venerable jet gasoline. Neste’s SAF is fabricated from sustainably sourced, 100% renewable wreck and residue raw offers, corresponding to feeble cooking oil and animal corpulent wreck. SAF is mixed with venerable jet gasoline sooner than spend and works seamlessly with existing aircraft engines and fueling infrastructure.
