The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that a vessel carrying the first shipment of liquefied natural gas from the new LNG Canada export terminal is poised to set sail to Asia as early as today, marking a milestone after nearly seven years of construction on the Northern B.C. project. The Globe's Brent Jang writes that chartered by Shell PLC, the GasLog Glasgow tanker arrived on Saturday. After it fills up, it will depart with the first batch of LNG produced at the $18-billion terminal in Kitimat. Shell-led LNG Canada is the country's first export terminal for the fuel, with the vessel preparing to make the journey across the Pacific Ocean. After the fuel has been loaded onto the tanker at LNG Canada's marine terminal, it will be piloted nearly 300 kilometres out of the Douglas Channel to ocean water by tugboat escorts. Shell is the largest partner in LNG Canada. The total cost of building the project has been pegged at $48.3-billion, including the $18-billion Kitimat terminal, TC Energy's $14.5-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline and other infrastructure, as well as annual budgets for drilling in the North Montney region of northeast B.C. The pipeline transports natural gas 670 kilometres from northeast B.C.