Despite official EU ban, imports of Russian Arctic LNG still surging
<div><img width="600" height="399" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2024/09/1dbd5138-6108-4b34-b9aa-bc38ac19b896-6d95c8cd-9d1f-4588-a462-d532e64538ce-585c6cd8-d8cc-44ef-abcc-0979873cbaad-600x399.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2024/09/1dbd5138-6108-4b34-b9aa-bc38ac19b896-6d95c8cd-9d1f-4588-a462-d532e64538ce-585c6cd8-d8cc-44ef-abcc-0979873cbaad-600x399.jpeg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2024/09/1dbd5138-6108-4b34-b9aa-bc38ac19b896-6d95c8cd-9d1f-4588-a462-d532e64538ce-585c6cd8-d8cc-44ef-abcc-0979873cbaad-1200x798.jpeg 1200w, https://static.euobserver.com/2024/09/1dbd5138-6108-4b34-b9aa-bc38ac19b896-6d95c8cd-9d1f-4588-a462-d532e64538ce-585c6cd8-d8cc-44ef-abcc-0979873cbaad-1536x1021.jpeg 1536w, https://static.euobserver.com/2024/09/1dbd5138-6108-4b34-b9aa-bc38ac19b896-6d95c8cd-9d1f-4588-a462-d532e64538ce-585c6cd8-d8cc-44ef-abcc-0979873cbaad-2048x1362.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>Despite a short-term contract ban which came into effect in March, almost 97 percent of the ships that left Russia’s Arctic Yamal site arrived at an EU port.
