{"id":1308,"date":"2024-12-08T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T10:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2024-12-08T10:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T10:18:49","slug":"laive-independence-iskelta-lietuvos-veliava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/archives\/1308","title":{"rendered":"The FSRU \u201eIndependence\u201c hoists the Lithuanian flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538414-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1312\" style=\"width:457px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538414-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538414-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538414-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538414-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538414-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>10 years after one of the best decisions in the history of independent Lithuania. A decade ago, on a very windy day, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage vessel with the meaningful name &#8220;Independence&#8221; arrived at Klaip\u0117da Port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, Lithuania time-chartered the ship from its owner, the Norwegian company H\u00f6egh Evi. The agreement allowed Lithuania to buy the vessel after 10 years of use. Last Friday, in a solemn ceremony, the Lithuanian flag was hoisted on the ship and she was registered in the Lithuanian Maritime Register. With a live view of Independence as the backdrop, we were welcomed in Klaipeda by Lithuania&#8217;s President Gitanas Nauseda, along with Poland&#8217;s President Andrzej Sebastian Duda, the Estonian President Alar Karis, Latvian President Edgars Rink\u0113vi\u010ds, former Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskait\u0117 (the ship&#8217;s godmother) and Ambassador Atle Konta Midttun from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Vilnius. The terminal operator, state-owned KN Energies, has bought the storage facility for around \u20ac140 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538513-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1314\" style=\"width:544px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538513-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538513-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538513-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538513-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733507538513.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidents of the Baltic States and Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ship was the main reason we completely abandoned Russian gas. Today, gas supplied by the Independence is used by Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, and Estonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733485246221-1-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1315\" style=\"width:538px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733485246221-1-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733485246221-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733485246221-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733485246221-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/llsa.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1733485246221-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years after one of the best decisions in the history of independent Lithuania. A decade ago, on a very windy day, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage vessel with the meaningful name &#8220;Independence&#8221; arrived at Klaip\u0117da Port. At the time, Lithuania time-chartered the ship from its owner, the Norwegian company H\u00f6egh Evi. The agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"gb","enabled_languages":["lt","gb"],"languages":{"lt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gb":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llsa.lt\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}