The Golar Tundra ship, that is the so-called regasification unit at the center of much discussion in recent months and much contested by locals, has docked at the port of Piombino, in the province of Livorno, is. A regasifier ship is used to bring liquefied natural gas (often referred to by the acronyms LNG) back to a gaseous state: these are indispensable industrial plants in order to be able to use gas from countries not connected to Italy by pipelines, such as the United States or Qatar, and reduce the country's dependence on Russian gas (which instead arrives via pipelines). The Golar Tundra, which is 300 meters long and 40 meters wide, is an FSRU, which stands for "floating storage and regasification unit," and will be able to feed up to 5 billion cubic meters of gas into the grid in a year. The facility had been built in 2015 as an LNG carrier and purchased by SNAM, the main company that manages gas distribution in Italy, and had left in late February from the Singapore shipyard where it was located.  The installation of a regasifier in Piombino (and another in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna) had been authorized last year under an emergency procedure with the aim of reducing Italy's dependence on Russian gas. Regasifiers are called “onshore” if placed on land and “offshore” if installed at sea, and connected to the grid with a small pipeline. In Piombino, a hybrid solution was chosen, with a ship docked at the port. The Piombino and Ravenna regasifiers will join three others already operating in Italy.