The tanker carrying Russian LNG sanctioned berths to China

According to data from ship tracking, a tanker carrying liquefied gas from Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 sanctioned project docked at a Chinese port days after Russian president Vladimir Putin met China’s leader Xi Jinping.

LSEG data showed that the Russian LNG tanker Voskhod was "anchored" in a LNG terminal at Tieshan Port in southern Chinese province Guangxi.

This is the second cargo from the project sanctioned to dock in China, after the tanker Arctic Mulan docked at China's Beihai LNG Terminal in late August. Arctic Mulan was the first cargo to reach an end user since Arctic LNG began last year.

The Arctic project, located in northern Siberia, began production in December of 2023. However the delivery of cargoes is behind schedule due to a shortage of ice class gas carriers as well as Western sanctions because of Russia's conflict in Ukraine.

The cargo arrived days after Putin's visit to China, where he attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit and a military parade celebrating the end of World War Two. (Reporting and editing by Tom Hogue; Reporting by James Pomfret)

(source: Reuters)