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“Plans for a transit terminal for Belarusian fertilizers in Ust Luga are being analyzed, but the exact location has not yet been chosen. We are likely to make a final decision for the summer: we will choose a location for the future terminal, we will decide its size. “Said Andrei Lavrischev, director of Rosmorreflflot.
“Belarus is interested in such a terminal and we want to help it,” he added.
In 2020, Belarus increased the export of potash fertilizers, part of which went through the port of Klaipeda. up to 7.14 million tons of active substance. This amount is approximately 60 percent. the actual weight of the fertilizer.
Belarus’ authoritarian President Aliaksandr Lukashenko threatened last fall that his country would refuse to use the port of Klaipeda for exports; mainly potassium fertilizers and petroleum products were exported.
The transport ministers of Russia and Belarus signed an agreement on February 19 to transship 9.8 million tons of cargo through Russian ports over three years. tons of products. It is announced that from March to the end of the year at least 2 million of them will be handled. heaps. These are fuel oil, gasoline, diesel, and oil.
Belarusian oil products in Russian ports on the Gulf of Finland coast began to be loaded onto ships earlier this month.
