LBC Rotterdam: Circular Thinking Storage

Terminal manager at LBC Rotterdam, Mathias Potvin, explores the role of tank storage infrastructure in enabling a net-zero economy The circular economy is rapidly moving from theory into operational reality, and tank terminals have a growing role to play in making that transition scalable. Terminals are no longer only logistics nodes that store products until they are shipped onward. Increasingly, they are becoming infrastructure enablers of circular supply chains, supporting new product flows, evolving customer expectations, and the wider shift toward net-zero industrial systems. In this changing landscape, circular thinking starts with a simple but important point. Terminals should aspire to become net zero themselves. Terminals are part of their customers’ Scope 3 emissions, so every improvement made in a terminal’s own operations directly benefits its partners and the wider value chain. LBC Tank Terminals in Rotterdam (LBC Rotterdam), is working very intensively on this transition. LBC’s approach can be divided into two main pillars: optimising current operations and investing in the fuels of the future. On the optimisation side, the focus is on improved insulation,...