Belarus ships 500,000 tons of oil products through Russian ports in March-April - Belneftekhim

<p> MINSK, May 17 - PrimePress. Belarus shipped 500,000 tons of oil products through Russian ports in March-April 2021, Belneftekhim spokesperson Alexander Tishchenko said in a TV interview broadcast by the STV channel on May 16. </p> <p>   </p> <p> “Since the start of the intergovernmental agreement, in the course of two months, March-April, half a million tons has already been shipped in the direction of Russian marine terminals, and the volumes up to 10 million tons are planned for three years,” said Tishchenko. </p> <p>   </p> <p> According to Tishchenko, the economy of the transit of Belarusian oil products has not lost anything from the transition to the Russian ports, but “the Baltic ports have problems with transit in this case”. “Their workload has dropped, and now they have a lot of questions about what to do next,” he said. </p> <p>   </p> <p> Russia and Belarus on 19 February 2021 signed an intergovernmental agreement on transshipping Belarusian oil products export through Russian seaports. The document provides for transshipment of over 9.8 million tons of cargoes by Belarusian companies via Russian seaports in 2021-2023. The indicative transshipment volumes under the agreement are 3.5 million tonnes in 2021, 3.2 million tonnes in 2022 and 3.1 million tonnes in 2023. </p> <p>   </p> <p> These are cargoes such as fuel oil, petrol and engine oil. Over the three years 2.9 million tonnes of fuel oil from the Mozyr refinery and 0.96 million tonnes of petroleum products oil from Naftan are expected to be delivered through the port of St Petersburg. Ust-Luga is to handle 4.3 million tonnes of gasoline and 0.4 million tonnes of gasoil from the Mozyr refinery and 1.3 million tonnes from Naftan. </p> <p>   </p> <p> As previously reported, BNK (UK) Limited, a subsidiary of BelOil, suspended the export of oil products via Klaipeda (Lithuania) under new contracts in mid-December 2020. The first export shipment of Belarusian oil products via Russian ports was facilitated on Mar 5, 2021: the Mozyr refinery exported over 5,000 tonnes of petrol via the Portenergo terminal in the Russian port of Ust-Luga. </p> <p>   </p> <p> Belarus has been exporting about 5 million tons of oil products per year through Baltic ports in recent years. The physical volume of petroleum product exports fell by 19.31% year on year in 2020 to 8.479 million tonnes. </p> <p>   </p> <p> Belarus supplied the largest amounts of oil products in 2020 to Ukraine (3.182 million tonnes, down 3.61% from 2019) worth $1.241 billion (down 38.33%); the UK (2.874 million tonnes, down 41.91%) worth $711.4 million (down 66.45%); the Netherlands (1.230 million tonnes, down 0.17%) worth $364.4 million (down 16.71%). End </p>

2021-05-18

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