Advisory

The same analysis we run on our own sites, run on yours.

Levante advises one kind of client: the sponsor or developer moving a green fuel project toward a structure a lender will fund. It is a principal practice run from Hamburg, drawing on specialist engineering and finance partners as a mandate requires. You work with the person who built the model, not a layer above them.

Levante develops production assets, the origin of the molecule. It does not own or operate ships, and it does not provide fleet emissions or compliance services.

Independent screening

A green fuel project rarely fails on its engineering. It fails on capital structure, on a resource figure that does not survive a met mast, or on a carbon assumption that does not survive a lender's 2045 question.

We bring the four-step screen behind our own portfolio to your project: an output-anchored mass balance, measured-resource grading rather than reanalysis, bottom-up CAPEX, and a capital structure tested against the coverage floor. The deliverable is an independent read on whether the resource, the cost base and the carbon assumption survive diligence.

The structure that funds

Most projects fail on capital structure, not on the plant. We design the stack that closes: development-finance and grant blending, an offtake-floor strategy for pure-ammonia economics, and the provenance discipline a development-finance credit committee expects.

FuelEU Maritime and the IMO carbon framework set the demand the molecule sells into. We read that demand from the production side, as the market a project clears, not as a service offered to a fleet.

Three mandates. Each answers one question.

Bring it in before
committing FEED budget
The Screen
Does the resource, the cost base and the carbon assumption survive a lender's diligence, or does the project fail before FEED money is spent?
You receive
A provenance-graded resource read, a bottom-up CAPEX at ±25 percent, the EBITDA-to-CAPEX ratio and the coverage solve, and one verdict: clears, needs a floor, or does not advance.
Bring it in when the plant works
but the stack will not close
The Structure
What is the lowest-equity stack that holds the 1.20x coverage floor across every serviced year, and what grant blend or offtake floor gets it there?
You receive
A capital structure tested against the floor, a development-finance and grant blending plan, an offtake-floor strategy for pure-ammonia economics, and the provenance discipline a DFI credit committee expects.
Bring it in when the molecule is real
but the route and the buyer are not
The Corridor Read
What does the molecule clear into, at what landed cost, and how exposed is that demand to a single policy line moving against it?
You receive
Corridor and freight economics to the destination, a landed-cost read, the FuelEU Maritime and IMO demand the molecule sells into, and the hedge logic against single-policy concentration.

The screen that decides whether FEED money is worth spending.

01
Concept
A coordinate, a resource claim, a product idea.
02 · Levante
Screen
The four-gate screen. Resource graded, CAPEX built, coverage solved, verdict reached.
The Screen
03 · Levante
Structure
The stack that closes: grant blend, DFI debt, offtake floor where the ratio needs one.
The Structure
04
FEED
Front-end engineering, run by an EPC. Levante hands over a graded basis.
05
FID, build
Final investment decision and construction. Sponsor and lenders, not Levante.

Levante works the pre-FEED window and the structuring that bridges FEED to FID. It is the independent read that tells a sponsor whether the next stage is worth funding, and the stack design that gets a cleared site to a decision. It does not run FEED, build, or operate, and it does not own or operate ships. The deliverable is a basis a credit committee can underwrite, handed to the parties who take it from there.

The principle
Never build a billion-euro infrastructure project around its scarcest input.
The principle behind the portfolio, and behind the advice.