The World’s First Floating LNG Terminal at the Port of Klaipeda
06 May 2021
Responding to the need for innovation solutions to make alternative fuels easily available, Klaipėda Terminal has installed the first floating LNG import terminal in the world. The facility ensures flexibility by providing services to multiple consumers at the same time. In 2017, Independence became the world's first floating terminal not only to supply degassed LNG to the gas transmission system, but also to reload LNG to smaller gas carriers for further distribution in the Baltic Sea region. As part of this process, Lithuania has become the 12th largest country for LNG re-exports.
The facility has the added benefit of safeguarding national energy security and creating conditions for the emergence of the natural gas market in Lithuania. Klaipėda Port has thus established itself as one of the country’s leading LNG distribution centres. Starting from 2020, LNG-powered vessels calling at Klaipėda Port can be bunkered according to all three schemes: in different port terminals from LNG tanker to ship, from terminal to ship in a dedicated operating LNG distribution station and from ship to ship.
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