Security measures for a proposed LNG terminal near Baltimore, Chesapeake Bay, have been rejected by the US Coastguard, on the grounds that security measures for LNG tankers loaded with in excess of 200,000 cubic metres of LNG, navigating through a bay lined with residential settlements need to be on a wholly different scale to those applicable to a sea-facing terminal.Amongst the enhanced security measures is a plan to provide gunboat escorts, armed security patrols, towing vessels, aerial surveillance, video surveillance, underwater security sweeps and a way to deal with passing cruise ships.
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