The Port of Brest, in Brittany, is being used as a repair yard for tankers delivering Russian gas around the world, Disclose can reveal. These stops make it possible to keep afloat vessels that carry gas from the Yamal LNG site, helping to finance Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
On 21 October 2024, the massive blue hull of the 295-metre gas tanker LNG Merak left Brest. Three weeks earlier, it had been put in dry dock in a huge basin of the port. Over 21 days, the Hong Kong-registered vessel was to have its plumbing maintained and its gas tanks and cargo pumps checked, according to an article in Breton daily Le Télégramme. But the newspaper failed to point out that each year, between July and October, the huge ship weighing several thousand tonnes has just one purpose: load up liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Russian gas terminal Yamal LNG and deliver its precious cargo in the EU and around the world…
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