On Tuesday 1 May, LNG from Sabetta on the Siberian peninsula Yamal was transhiped simultaneously in Zeebrugge for the first time. Namely, LNG was transhiped from an ice class vessel (ARC7) into a conventional LNG carrier for further transport to Asia.
The Russian ice class vessel Eduard Toll transferred simultaneously LNG into the ms Pskov through shore pipes. In 2015 the terminal of Fluxys was selected as transhipment hub for LNG from the Yamal gasfield. In the port of Sabetta new installations have been built to accomodate LNG liquefaction activities.
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The contract constitutes for Zeebrugge an annual transhipment of 107 LNG loads from ice class vessels to conventional LNG vessels or 214 vessel movements in the port.
In winter time, when the northern sea routes are frozen in Siberia, the ice class LNG vessels will shuttle from Sabetta to Zeebrugge.
