Unused and leftover: Hundreds of Nord Stream 2 tubes are apparently lying around at the Sassnitz ferry port near Rügen. © IMAGO/photo2000
Apparently, unused tubes for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline are lying around at a German ferry port. Robert Habeck's ministry is looking for a solution.
Munich/Greifswald - It was perhaps Germany's most sensational sanction against Russia in the Ukraine war: The traffic light government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) stopped the approval process for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in view of preparations for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Nord Stream 2: Unused tubes apparently cost the federal government many millions of euros
The pipeline was originally intended to carry gas from Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region to Lubmin near Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Germany. Recently, however, it became known that the Federal Republic of Germany has managed to make itself completely independent of Russian gas in just a few months.
For which politicians accepted that the price of gas rose nationwide in the meantime. And probably also that leftover tubes, bought for a lot of money, are not used. According to Business Insider, the federal government is said to have bought the huge pipes for 70 million euros.
Nord Stream 2: Germany apparently bought 3000 tubes
Specifically, Germany is said to have acquired around 2022 tubes from Nord Stream 2 AG in spring 3000, the portal writes. It is not clear from the report whether Germany was obliged to purchase the hardware when the contract was terminated.
The Federal Ministry of Economics of Robert Habeck (Greens) was cautious. "We cannot provide any information about the quantity of pipes and the costs, as the contracts have been classified as confidential," Business Insider quoted the department as saying.
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After all, some of this material is now to be used. Because: As the online business magazine writes, the traffic light federal government of SPD, Greens and FDP is planning to build an LNG terminal in the ferry port of Sassnitz on the island of Rügen. In Mukran, an integrated industrial port, two special ships are to convert liquefied natural gas.
LNG terminals on Rügen: 50-kilometre-long gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea?
Of these, a 50-kilometer pipeline will then transport the gas through the Baltic Sea to Lubmin on the German mainland, it is said. It is precisely this pipeline that is to be built from said giant tubes, which, according to agency photos, are currently already lying around on a site next to the so-called Mukran Port in the east of the island of Rügen.
However, this does not eliminate the political explosive power of the process: The German Bundesliga football club FC Schalke 04, for example, terminated its business relations with the Russian energy company, which had previously been a shirt sponsor for years. Meanwhile, did Gazprom still collect millions from the German government for pipes before its withdrawal from Germany? (pm)