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The partnership highlights the level important above all from an energy security Wärtsilä signs long-term
of collaboration between ports and other perspective, which is also why the state is
key players across the LNG value chain, willing to financially support the project, service agreement with
particularly in the EU. It is vital to continue writes ERR.ee, an Estonian news website.
to support infrastructure development According to electricity and gas system Brittany Ferries to support
for LNG and bioLNG now and ensure operator Elering CEO Taavi Veskimägi, an
this infrastructure is in place for use with LNG terminal can only be built once Estonia new LNG-fuelled ferry
renewable synthetic LNG in the future. has resolved to stop importing Russian natural
By bringing together parties from across gas. No such decision has yet been made, The technology group Wärtsilä will provide
the shipping sector choosing the LNG however. technical support via a long-term service
pathway, SEA-LNG supports investment and So long as natural gas continues to flow agreement for its broad scope of solutions
development in the ecosystem of assets and from Russia, Incukalns Underground Gas installed on Brittany Ferries’ latest RoPax
infrastructure that allow businesses to rapidly Storage in Latvia will continue to be filled in vessel, the ‘Salamanca’. The 10-year agreement
adopt LNG as a marine fuel around the world. order to ensure a sufficient supply for next was signed in December 2021. The ferry will
Port of Zeebrugge is one of the world’s season, Veskimägi said. be inaugurated on March 25 and make its first
leading roll-on/roll-off ports, and in 2021 Additional supply chains should be sought commercial sailing from Portsmouth, UK to
transhipped 49.1mn tons of goods. The out at the same time as well, such as bringing Bilbao, Spain on March 27.
deep-sea container terminal, CSP Zeebrugge in additional gas from the Klaipeda LNG The ’Salamanca’ is the first LNG-fuelled
Terminal, is located adjacent to the open terminal in Lithuania. Once the recently passenger ferry to operate from the U.K. The
sea and the main shipping routes of north- completed Gas Interconnection Poland- vessel’s multi-fuel Wärtsilä engines are also
western Europe. Lithuania (GIPL) pipeline goes online on May adapted to utilise even cleaner fuels, such as
Infrastructure for storing and transferring 1, however, LNG will begin to be shipped synthetic or bio-methane, as and when they
LNG marine fuel has been installed and used from Klaipeda to Poland. become available.
at the Port of Zeebrugge since 1987. The port “The 30 terawatt-hours, which is the “We have a responsibility to operate as
is one of the main hubs for LNG supply in capacity of the Klaipeda terminal, surely won’t environmentally efficiently as possible and
the region, receiving pipelines from Norway all remain in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the choice of LNG-fuelled propulsion is in
and the UK, and vessel imports from Qatar. Finland,” the Elering CEO explained. “Part line with this commitment,” says Arnaud
The port’s LNG terminal, operated by Fluxys, of this will be heading toward Poland via the Le Poulichet, Director Engineering and
offers regasification and provides distribution Lithuanian-Polish connection.” Maintenance Brittany Ferries. “The advanced
in Belgium and across the European network Earlier this month, the EU set a deadline technical support provided by Wärtsilä will
in pipelines, trucks or ships. Onsite storage of 2027 for achieving independence from optimise the ship’s operational performance,
is equal to 9bn m³ LNG per year. Port of Russian energy sources. Minister of Economic thus further raising its level of sustainability.”
Zeebrugge has broad expertise and valuable Affairs and Infrastructure Taavi Aas (Centre The extensive scope of the service
experience due to its long-standing and Party) warned, however, that Russia may agreement includes remote operational
pivotal role in European LNG markets. respond by ending the sale of natural gas to support and Wärtsilä’s unique Expert Insight
SEA-LNG, March 24, 2022 Europe. Which is why the minister submitted digital predictive maintenance solution.
a proposal to the Estonian government last Expert Insight combines artificial intelligence
Estonia considering week for the construction of a temporary (AI) techniques and advanced diagnostics
with the company’s OEM expertise to identify
LNG terminal in Paldiski.
building LNG terminal in ready as such,” Aas highlighted, noting that anomalous equipment or system behaviour. It
“This area is already essentially terminal-
proactively identifies and highlights potential
Paldiski fuel seller Alexela had already completed a failures allowing appropriate actions to be
significant amount of preliminary work in
taken, thus ensuring optimal uptime.
At the proposal of the minister of economic that regard. “Now the matter of how to build The agreement also includes long-term
affairs, the Estonian state is considering this rapidly and what the guarantees should maintenance planning emphasising a fully
building an LNG terminal in the Northern be – these must still be decided.” controlled and optimised maintenance
Estonian port town of Paldiski. The budget. With round-the-clock technical
establishing of this terminal would be and operational support provided from

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