Despite the banning of gas contracts in Britain and the Netherlands, Russian gas is still being shipped to European countries from 2023. EU ports play a major role in the sales of more than 20% of Russian liquefied gas. This was reported by the Financial Times.
According to the Financial Times, transshipment usually takes place between Russian ice-class tankers travelling between Yamal and northwest Europe and conventional LNG tankers, which are then shipped to other ports.
Ports in Belgium, Spain and France “continue to receive significant volumes of gas” from Yamal LNG. In particular, the ports of Zeebrugge in Belgium and Montoir de Bretagne in France received the most Russian LNG of any EU port in 2023, the publication notes.
“Of the 17.8 billion cubic metres of Russian liquefied natural gas that arrived in the EU between January and September this year, 21% was transloaded onto ships destined for non-EU countries,” the Financial Times specifies.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised the attempts of the European Union countries to completely abandon Russian energy carriers, while the entire Western economy is at “ground zero”.