Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee, and Sergey Frank, President and CEO of Sovcomflot have discussed the future participation of Sovcomflot in Gazprom’s tenders for chartering of ice class gas carriers, Gazprom says in its press release.
At their working meeting the parties discussed their cooperation in arrangement of maritime transportation of liquefied natural gas.
“Alexey Miller and Sergey Frank have highly appreciated the companies’ cooperation in arrangement of supplies of hydrocarbons to APR countries by the Northern Sea Route (NSR). It was noted, that energy shipments by NSR take much less time as compared with the traditional route via the Suez Canal and are more efficient from the economic point of view. The parties underlined that the companies would continue this work,” the statement reads.
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