Stock Photo - 12 April 2022, Lower Saxony, Stade: The industrial port of Stade, which is to be expanded in the future for the planned import terminal for liquefied natural gas. An import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) is to be built in Stade by 2026. Up to 13.3 billion cubic meters of gas will then be fed into the networks from there each year - around 15 percent of Germany's gas demand. The operator consortium Hanseatic Energy Hub (HEH) submitted the approval documents to the responsible State Trade Supervisory Office in Lüneburg on Monday and expects to receive approval by March 2023. Construction work is then scheduled to begin. Photo: Sina Schuldt/dpa. - Stade/Lower Saxony/Germany