Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis is in the United States this week and is expected to seek political support from the U.S. for natural gas supplies to his country’s new floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Klaipeda which began to operate at the end of 2014.
In the meantime, a cargo of LNG is currently on its way to Lithuania from Statoil’s Snøhvit LNG export terminal in Norway aboard the Golar Seal, according to a report by Reuters.
The following is the report from Ukraine Today:
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The US and China will temporarily lower tariffs on each other’s products in a dramatic ratcheting down of trade tensions that buys the world’s two largest economies three months to work toward a broader agreement.
Finland’s premier icebreaker designer, Aker Arctic, has been awarded a contract to develop a new state-of-the-art mid-size icebreaker. The effort is part of a major fleet renewal program to ready Finland's icebreaking fleet for the changing requirements in the Baltic Sea. The country is also part of the ICE Pact with Finnish yards looking to construct icebreakers for Canada and the U.S.
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