July 2, 2015 [PortNews IAA] - Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) will supervise the construction of an LNG storage facility with a Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) for Gazprom, Georgy Bedrik, Head of RS Business Development Department, told IAA PortNews at the Seventh International Maritime Defence Show in Saint-Petersburg.
The vessel will be built at the shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI, South Korea) by 2017.
“The gas carrier with a function of ship-to-shore discharge of re-gasified product will operate in Kaliningrad. The vessel’s LNG capacity is to exceed 170,000 cbm,” Georgy Bedrik said.
