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The Independence, the floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) built for Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Klaipėda, will be protected while on its way to Lithuania and should reach the terminal by November, says Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, adding he cannot specify the precise date.
LNG vessel to be protected on its way to Lithuania
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“The vessel will be safeguarded from a certain distance but this will be done there by others,” Butkevičius told reporters in Klaipėda on Tuesday.

The terminal’s construction should be completed in September and would be followed by testing, he said.

“I think the works will be completed in September, which will be followed

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