EU shipyards are repairing Russian ice-class tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling Moscow to continue moving gas through the Arctic despite western sanctions on its energy sector.
Without the maintenance work — provided by Damen shipyard in Brest, France, and Fayard A/S in Denmark — Russia’s Yamal LNG plant would struggle to access crucial markets through winter when northern hemisphere gas prices are at their highest.
The two yards have serviced 14 out of the 15-strong fleet of specialised Arc7 tankers that ship from Yamal LNG on Russia’s far northern coast, according to satellite imagery and port-call tracking data from Kpler, a data and analytics company. Some ships called multiple times.
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