Hundreds of Nord Stream 2 tubes are apparently lying around at the Sassnitz ferry port near Rügen. The pipeline was originally intended to carry gas from Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region to Lubmin near Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The federal government is said to have bought the huge pipes for 70 million euros. It is not clear from the report whether Germany was obliged to purchase the hardware when the contract was terminated.