A first floating storage and ­regasification unit for the Russian ­enclave of Kaliningrad is due to ­arrive next week.

The Arc4 ice-class, 170,000-cbm newbuilding Marshal Vasil­evskiy, which was contracted by Gaz­prom­flot, passed through the Suez Canal early this week and is expected on site at the Baltic Sea port around 14 to 16 December.

A naming ceremony has been scheduled to mark the ­arrival of the FSRU, which is a strategic unit to give ­security of supply to Kaliningrad.