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2016 May 19   16:33

Transshipment of Russian oil products via port Ventspils (Latvia) will reduce 2.1 times to 2 mln t this year

The volume of Russian oil products exported via the port of Ventspils (Latvia) will reduce 2.1 times to 2 mln t in 2016, IAA PortNews journalist cites Vladimir Nazarov, Vice-President of Transneft, as saying at the meeting of the Company’s Expert Council held in Moscow. 

According to him, 15 mln t of oil products are be exported via port Primorsk (Leningrad Region). 

In 2015, 17.9 mln t of Russian oil products were exported via the ports of the Baltic states.

By 2020, Transneft is going to export 25 mln t of oil products per year under Sever project (Kstovo (Vtorovo) – Yaroslavl – Kirishi – Primorsk pipeline).

Primorsk will transship about 60 mln t of oil per year.