Another Russian ‘Shadow Fleet’ LNG Tanker Abandons Voyage After Five Months, Offloads Cargo to FSU

U.S. sanctions continue to severely hamper Russia’s efforts to deliver LNG from the designated Arctic LNG 2 plant to customers. Five months after loading cargo at the Arctic gas terminal LNG carrier East Energy (139,833-cbm) moored up yesterday alongside the Koryak floating storage barge to seemingly offload its cargo. 

The offloading concludes a roughly 25,000 nautical mile journey that began in early September high in the Arctic. After departing from Arctic LNG 2 East Energy traveled along the Northern Sea Route and arrived at Nakhodka Bay near Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East in early October. The vessel has been anchored in the bay or circling in the Sea of Japan throughout winter. It began traveling towards Koryak FSU located on Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula at the beginning of February.