EU shipyards fix Russia's Arctic LNG tankers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : EU shipyards are repairing Russian ice-class tankers and offering them dry dock facilities, enabling Moscow to continue moving gas through the Arctic despite western sanctions on its energy sector.
52% : The EU agreed to sanction the ship itself -- the first move from the bloc to put any sanctions on Yamal's operations -- on December 16.
49% : The activities of the ships and yards are not sanctioned because of carve-outs for energy transportation and because they are not Russian-flagged, and the specialised tankers would not be able to distribute their cargo without the technical expertise and maintenance from the European yards.
43% : In a first step towards phasing out imports of the shipped gas, EU countries agreed in June to ban from March the trans-shipment of Russian LNG.
39% : This will stop EU ports being used to move gas from ice-class tankers to less expensive regular vessels for shipping to other countries.

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