It seems cake making is not just confined to ships and shipowners these days.

Take a look at this beauty from Sabetta in Russia, baked to celebrate the start of LNG production from the Yamal LNG project’s third train late last week.

On Watch is assured the wording reads something along the lines of “Go ahead third train”, and is that a discrete gas tap on the top left of the cake in blue and yellow to represent the turning on of supply?

LNG aficionados will note the careful lettering of -163C around the edges of the cake, detailing the temperature at which LNG is stored, and surely those are the bows of two vessels wrapped around the lower layers.

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