Ashdod Port to use natural gas as an energy source

Ashdod Port will improve its energy and environmental efficiency as it becomes the first port in Israel to use natural gas as an energy source.

The Ashdod Port Company has won 2.8m shekels (US$767,312) in grants from the Ministry of Energy to use natural gas as an energy source and establish a natural gas fuelling station.

Isaac Blumenthal, CEO of Ashdod Port Company, said: “As part of Ashdod’s preparations for the era of competition in the seaports, we are taking steps towards energy and environmental efficiency; which will eventually lead to savings in the port’s operational expenses.