Neste and HELLENiQ ENERGY, one of Southeast Europe’s main vitality groups, uncover collaborated to ship blended Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Gasoline to HELLENiQ ENERGY’s companies and products in Thessaloniki. It is the fundamental time that blended sustainable aviation gas (SAF) is supplied to Greece in bulk the usage of ships for transport.
The transport of the blended SAF will scheme bigger the supply and accessibility of sustainable aviation gas at airports all over Greece, providing airways and passengers a resolution to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from air travel. This transport is severely neatly timed, coinciding with the summer season vacationer season, a wanted length for the Greek financial system.
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SAF has been widely acknowledged as a key lever in helping to scheme aviation’s emissions reduction goals globally. Nonetheless, one of many challenges going thru the industry is the supply of SAF in enough portions. This partnership is a milestone because it marks the fundamental time that SAF is being delivered to Greece in bulk by vessels in preference to vehicles, which reduces transport emissions. This transport will be followed by others in every single place in the the rest of 2024.
“HELLENiQ ENERGY used to be the fundamental to scheme sure the supply of Neste’s sustainable aviation gas in Greece, already succor in 2022. The growth of the collaboration with Neste is in step with our neighborhood’s strategic perform to turn real into a provider of low-carbon vitality alternatives and to repeatedly decrease our carbon footprint. Our perform is to facilitate aviation gas suppliers, airways, and airports to put together in a proactive formula for the upcoming European Union SAF mandate targets starting in 2025. This effort started two years ago when our subsidiary EKO began for the fundamental time in Greece supplying AEGEAN airplane with SAF for flights departing from Thessaloniki Airport “Makedonia”, making it the Seventh airport on the earth where a SAF-fueled flight used to be realized. Now, this effort is expanding to your total industry in Greece with even elevated volumes, and at extra airports”, stated Diomidis Stamoulis, Senior Director Strategic Planning of Industrial Actions & Participations at HELLENiQ ENERGY.
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“Sustainable aviation gas is a accessible resolution for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel. This cooperation with HELLENiQ ENERGY to construct our SAF to Greece no longer handiest illustrates our dedication to supporting airways within the Southeast European draw nonetheless also the importance of cooperation with ambitious companions to scheme bigger SAF availability and adoption. We’re taking a designate ahead to extra establishing our cooperation with HELLENiQ,” stated Alexander Kueper, Vice President Renewable Aviation Exchange at Neste.
Sustainable Aviation Gasoline
Sustainable aviation gas is a renewable aviation gas providing a extra sustainable different to frail, fossil-primarily based completely jet gas. The usage of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Gasoline™ reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by up to 80%* over the gas’s lifestyles cycle, when put next with the usage of frail jet gas. Neste’s SAF is made from sustainably sourced, 100% renewable rupture and residue raw materials, corresponding to oldschool cooking oil and animal beefy rupture. SAF is blended with frail jet gas sooner than use and works seamlessly with unusual airplane engines and fueling infrastructure.
