EMEA News
Storage Tanks Set for Arrival at Port of Klaipėda LNG Station
The Government of Lithuania today announced that three of five liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks designed for a LNG reloading station at the Port of Klaipėda have been shipped from Chart Ferox, a.s. (Chart Ferox).
The tanks are currently being shipped on individual barges to the port of Hamburg, where they will be loaded onto a sea cargo carrier to be transported on to Klaipėda.
The three tanks are set to arrive at Klaipėda in mid-March, with the two remaining tanks slated to arrive at the beginning of the summer.
"Having followed this complex reloading operation and witnessed that the first LNG tanks were successfully and timely loaded onto a barge, we are convinced that the project is being implemented according to schedule. It is very important that the world's leading manufacturer of LNG tanks and distribution equipment Chart Ferox, a.s is taking part in the project," said Marius Pulkauninkas, Acting CEO of AB Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipėdos Nafta).
"This means that we are supplied with high quality LNG storage tanks which will be safely shipped to the port of Klaipėda in due time. When the LNG distribution station is put into operation, the port of Klaipėda will become the LNG hub for the Baltic countries and north-eastern Poland."
As Ship & Bunker has reported, the LNG reloading station will support LNG bunkering, among other uses of the fuel.
