“Without Greece’s leadership, the Vertical Gas Corridor would not have been possible,” Josh Huck, the new charge d’affaires of the US Embassy in Athens, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on the sidelines of his visit to Thessaloniki and the 89th TIF.
“Greece is playing an absolutely critical role in the Vertical Corridor. Greece has done a really excellent job at positioning itself as an energy hub in a way that just wasn’t the case if you look back 10-20 years ago, just wasn’t true. And now Greece is a really important player for a few reasons. One, you’ve got geography, just the realities of geography and where we need to be able to access the European market, particularly this kind of eastern segment of the European market.”
He also referred to the governance and political will. “The government has been really committed to this. And it’s also a matter of having the infrastructure, and the US has played an important role in that. For example, in the Elefsis shipyards. The US, under our development finance corporation, committed $125 million to improving the Elefsis shipyards to be able to service LNG ships and get more, particularly US LNG, through the vertical corridor.”