Russian liquefaction start-up Yamal LNG is considering chartering in vessels as the project’s export shipments and planned trains are geared up to come onstream ahead of schedule.

Jean-Francois Hery, Yamal’s marketing and shipping director, tells TradeWinds that when his team sees the pace of construction and the production that is taking place, it has to think: “What next?”

“We are thinking of chartering in or chartering out in a dynamic way,” he said.