The Baltic States were left without Belarusian transit: the first shipments of oil products went to Russian ports
The agreement between Moscow and Minsk on the transshipment of Belarusian oil products through Russian ports started working, the Baltic states were left without transit. According to the Ministry of Transport of Russia, the first consignments of export gasoline have already been sent to Ust-Luga and St. Petersburg.
According to the report, several trains with more than 5 tons of gasoline produced at the Mozyr Oil Refinery went to the Russian port of Ust-Luga. In addition, a consignment of fuel oil with a total volume of over 3,6 thousand tons was sent to the seaport of St. Petersburg for transshipment through the Petersburg Oil Terminal.
- said in the message of the Ministry of Transport.
Thus, Minsk began to implement Lukashenka's promise to deprive Lithuania and Latvia of the transit of export Belarusian oil products for the support of the opposition and the imposed sanctions. According to experts' calculations, up to 40% of Belarusian exports went through Lithuania, and this applies not only to oil.
The agreement between Russia and Belarus was signed in February. The document was signed for 2021-2023 with automatic extension and provides for the transshipment of Belarusian oil products through Russian ports in the Baltic. We are talking about fuel oil, gasoline and oils.
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