Moscow plans to redirect all the goods from the Baltic ports to Russian by 2020

All Russian cargoes, which are now handled in the ports of the Baltic States by 2020 must refocus on the ports of Russia, said sources familiar with the meeting with the special representative of the President on environmental issues and transport Sergey Ivanov.
According to one of them, it mostly was about the transshipment of dry cargoes, reports " information Agency ".
On 12 September, the head of Transneft Nikolay Tokarev in the process of meeting with the President Vladimir Putin said that the Firm plans before the end of 2017 refusing to export through the Baltic ports, the traffic will be routed through Russian ports, where there is surplus capacity." Will upload its ports, As there is surplus capacity, " ? Tokarev said at a meeting with the head of the state Vladimir Putin." In accordance with the instructions of the government, we will reorient the cargo traffic from Baltic ports ? Ventspils, Riga ? on our Baltic ports, it is Ust-Luga and Primorsk and Novorossiysk", where he said. In April the Riga free port has told about the significant decline in the volume of cargo movement. Thus, the port's cargo turnover in the 1st quarter was down compared with the same period last year by 13, 8% ? to 9, 1 million tons. Later in Riga also revealed that transshipment of Russian coal and petroleum products through the port of Riga (RSP) In the current year has declined by 10, 8%, and the economy of the Republic because of this, lost about 40 million euros. At the same time, in early autumn, Transneft received the order prohibiting the supply of petroleum products to Ukraine. As before wrote the print edition OPINION, no more than two years, Russian oil products finally leave the ports of the Baltic, and afterwards in the Russian ports will go and other goods.


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