Tiger Logistics and H2 Invest to advance India’s liquid hydrogen transport network | Hydrogen

India-based Tiger Logistics will work with Russia’s H2 Invest to introduce cryogenic tanks for the storage and transportation of liquid hydrogen in India.

The partners, who signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this month, aim to build infrastructure to enable the transportation of liquid hydrogen by truck, railway and container ships.

To do this, H2 Invest will supply its CryoSafe container technology to Tiger Logistics.

This could include the CryoSafe-5000, a spherical liquid hydrogen storage tank capable of storing 5,000 cubic metres of hydrogen.

To advance liquid hydrogen transport, H2 Invest has also developed CryoSafe-42, an ISO container tank equipped with a capacity of 43.1 cubic metres.

Tiger Logistics’ CryoSafe-5000 can store up to 5,000 cubic metres of hydrogen. ©Tiger Logistics

“Hydrogen is the energy of the future, and its safe and efficient transportation will be key to realising India’s clean energy ambitions,” said Harpreet Singh Malhotra, Chairman & Manager Director of Tiger Logistics.

The joint venture is likely to be a good fit with India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission, which targets the production of five million tonnes of green hydrogen per year by 2030.

In July, India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced it would embark on a $7.8m funding spree for four green hydrogen projects.

This includes a project in Pune being developed by the National Chemical Laboratory and one in Kerala spearheaded by ANERT.

Speaking at the release of India’s Budget 2025, Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Prahlad Joshi, said, “Very shortly we are going to reach 75GW [of renewable energy capacity] and in two or three years I’m quite confident that we will reach 100GW.”

Several larger scale projects are also already underway. NTPC Green Energy is leading the development of a $21bn green hydrogen hub in Pudimadaka, Andhra Pradesh.

In western India, the Deendayal Port Authority is using electrolysers for an upcoming green hydrogen plant at its Kandla port.

The country also launched its first port-based green hydrogen project in September. The $52.3m facility is expected to produce 10 normal cubic metres per hour of green hydrogen at the VO Chidambaranar Port in Tamil Nadu.

This projects are complemented by the Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme, which defines what qualifies as ‘green’ hydrogen, introduces a multi-tiered certification system, and sets a maximum lifecycle emissions threshold of 2kg CO2 equivalent per kg of hydrogen.