Gas Terminal Completion Shows Germany Can Move Fast

The speed with which Germany managed to build and link up its first floating gas terminal to replace lost supplies of Russian gas should serve as a model for a new, pacier German economy, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said at the terminal’s opening.

The 90 kilotonne Hoegh Esperanza, “a shipborne regasification terminal, will in future be able to supply enough gas for 50,000 households for a year.” Further floating liquid natural gas terminals will follow.

“Many said it would be impossible to get it built this year,” a yellow-jacketed Scholz said as he was buffeted by a stiff North Sea winter bluster. “When we work together we can do things at great speed: that’s Germany’s new tempo.”

Aljazeera /Shakirat Sadiq