The massive 291-meter-long and 43-meter-wide offshore support vessel Exemplar, which sailed to the Baltic Sea from Gibraltar and Spain earlier December, has a capacity of 68,000 tons of LNG and is scheduled to be operational from the beginning of 2023.FSRU Exemplar, owned by the U.S. company Excelerate Energy Inc., will ensure future availability of gas in Finland, replacing supplies earlier imported from Russia, the state-owned Gasgrid Finland said, calling the move historic.Supreme Court asked to bar punishment for acquitted conductOn the ballot in 2023: Southern governors, big-city mayorsProsecutors open investigation into Rep.-Elect George Santos1st 2 years revealed President Biden's generational ambitionThe vessel will reconvert LNG to gas which will then be fed into the Finnish network for distribution.The arrival of the Exemplar will also enable gas deliveries to the Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania — and possibly also to Poland through the undersea Balticconnector pipeline between Finland and Estonia that runs near Inkoo.“This is a tremendous accomplishment for everyone involved, and we are proud to have partnered with Gasgrid on this opportunity.”European Union member Finland, which shares a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) long border with Russia, applied to join NATO in May and is currently waiting for the remaining two members — Hungary and Turkey — of the military alliance to ratify its membership."