Dr. Therese Keck, head of professional services at Grandperspective, and content specialist James Gordon review the case for PGS-12 safety standards Ammonia is fast becoming a fundamental pillar of Europe’s energy transition. What for years was considered a major fertiliser feedstock is increasingly being looked at as an energy carrier, a marine fuel and a hydrogen vector. The environmental benefits are clear but the scaling-up of the ammonia economy poses challenges for regulators. Leading the way is the Netherlands, where demand for increased storage and import capacity at the Ports of Rotterdam and Vlissingen has been most keenly felt. This […]

As seismic shifts are happening in the global geopolitical and economic landscape, a panel of experts at StocExpo 2026 looked at how these could impact product flows and how the tank storage industry may respond. Ramon Ernst, integration leader at Curoil, looked at how the landscape keeps constantly shifting. ‘Two months ago, all we talked about was Venezuela,’ he said. ‘Now we are only talking about the Middle East. Sometimes in Europe, we can look too inward – we see now how we are impacted by everything else in the world.’ This was echoed by Patrick Kulsen, CEO at Insight […]