Rolande, Hoyer team up on boosting LNG fueling accessibility

Dutch LNG infrastructure specialist Rolande has partnered up with the logistics company Hoyer Group to make cross-card acceptance possible at LNG/CNG filling stations.

This acceptance agreement allows refueling using different petrol cards. It will enable payment with the HoyerCard.Europe at Rolande stations and vice versa.

Both companies emphasize the necessity of reducing CO2 emissions.

The Cross-Card Acceptance Agreement is signed in order to accelerate the transition to sustainable road traffic. The partner companies intend to ensure that the LNG network will be expanded further.

Jolon van der Schuit, CEO of Rolande, said: “Rolande pursues the objective of creating an LNG network covering all of Europe. We want to make it possible that driving an LNG truck from Goteborg to Gibraltar is just as easy as driving a diesel truck. To achieve this objective, Rolande relies on its own filling station network while it enters long-term partnerships in the interest of cross-card acceptance at the same time.”

Rolande opened its first LNG station in Germany in 2020 in Ulm. The Hoyer Group did it in Soltau in 2020.

Rolande operates four stations in Germany and another ten are to be added by the end of the year. A maximum of 24 Rolande stations will be added to the network in 2022.

Thomas Hoyer, the managing shareholder of the Hoyer Group, said: “In 2020, the company’s first own LNG filling station was taken into operation, and numerous further LNG filling possibilities at select Hoyer stations are to be added to the network in the near term. Furthermore, acceptance agreements such as the one concluded with Rolande have been signed to permit fuelling and payment with the HoyerCard.Europe in all of Germany and in neighboring European countries.”

LNG trucks are not only sustainable but also attractive economically, since they continue to be exempt from road tolls in Germany by 31 December 2023.