Zvezda shipyard is not on schedule - by March 2023 - to produce the lead tanker Arc7 for Novatek's LNG project Arctic LNG-2, sources told Kommersant. Deadline for delivering this and four more tankers for the first line of the LNG plant is being pushed back by at least a year. Under such circumstances, Novatek may be forced to postpone its plans to deliver most of the cargo from the new LNG plant to Asia, redirecting LNG shipments to Europe, where the transport shoulder is shorter.