Russian Railways ready to ship additional volumes of petroleum products from Belarus to Russian ports in May
<p> MINSK, Apr 9 - PrimePress. Russian Railways (RZD) is ready to carry additional volumes of oil products to Russian ports in March and April 2021 following an increase in shipments of Belarusian oil products in excess of the plan, RZD Deputy CEO Alexei Shilo told reporters on Friday. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at an operational meeting of the Russian government on April 5 that Belarusian exporters shipped 220,000 tonnes of oil products through Russian ports in March 2021, exceeding their planned transshipment volumes by almost 25%, and April is also expected to be at least 100 thousand tonnes higher than planned. Vitaly Savelyev, the Russian Minister of Transport, added then that the figure was around 280,000 tonnes in April against the target of 180,000 tonnes. </p> <p> </p> <p> “Russian Railways is absolutely ready to carry the entire volume of Belarusian oil products. We are ready to take an additional amount fr om them both in April and May. Therefore, we expect this figure to grow,” Prime news agency quoted Shilo as saying. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, Russia and Belarus on 19 February 2021 signed an intergovernmental agreement on transshipping Belarusian oil products export through Russian seaports. Under the agreement, contracts under the take-or-pay condition, wh ere a sea terminal will get the entire contracted payment even if cargo sender does not transship the contracted cargo in full will be signed. 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. End </p> <p> </p>
2021-04-10
Primepress
Russian Railways ready to ship additional volumes of petroleum products from Belarus to Russian ports in May
MINSK, Apr 9 - PrimePress. Russian Railways (RZD) is ready to carry additional volumes of oil products to Russian ports in March and April 2021 following an increase in shipments of Belarusian oil products in excess of the plan, RZD Deputy CEO Alexei Shilo told reporters on Friday.
As previously reported, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said at an operational meeting of the Russian government on April 5 that Belarusian exporters shipped 220,000 tonnes of oil products through Russian ports in March 2021, exceeding their planned transshipment volumes by almost 25%, and April is also expected to be at least 100 thousand tonnes higher than planned. Vitaly Savelyev, the Russian Minister of Transport, added then that the figure was around 280,000 tonnes in April against the target of 180,000 tonnes.
“Russian Railways is absolutely ready to carry the entire volume of Belarusian oil products. We are ready to take an additional amount fr om them both in April and May. Therefore, we expect this figure to grow,” Prime news agency quoted Shilo as saying.
As previously reported, Russia and Belarus on 19 February 2021 signed an intergovernmental agreement on transshipping Belarusian oil products export through Russian seaports. Under the agreement, contracts under the take-or-pay condition, wh ere a sea terminal will get the entire contracted payment even if cargo sender does not transship the contracted cargo in full will be signed. 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.
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. End