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The fourth shipment of Venezuelan crude arrived at Odessa (Ukraine) on July 31, en route to Belarus. A fifth tanker delivered a shipment through Estonia's Muuga seaport to the Naftan refinery. |
Another tanker laden with Venezuelan crude oil for Belarus arrived at Ukraine’s Odessa seaport on July 31, a seaport traffic control officer told BelaPAN.
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A Venezuelan tanker on it's way to Ukraine
for transhipment via rail to Belarus |
The vessel brought a shipment of 77,560 tons of oil and is expected to unload by the morning of August 3.
The shipment will be then carried by rail to the Mazyr oil refinery in the Homyel region.
The seaport officer said that a new vessel carrying Venezuelan crude oil for Belarus would arrive in Odessa on August 10.
A contract was signed in Caracas on March 17 for Venezuela to supply up to four million tons of oil to Belarus before the end of the year.
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The farm tractor mfg. in Belarus is one of a large fleet shown in the Bicentenial Parade in Caracas on April 19, 2010, imported to support Venezuela's food sovereignty program. Notice the driver is a member of the Campesino Militia, armed to protect themselves from paramilitary groups organized by ranchers and wealthy land owners. The Campesino Militia is under the command of the Bolivarian Armed Forces. The bilateral trade agreement between Venezuela and Belarus includes many products in the automotive industry, technology, optical, agricultural, forest, military, textile services, housing and other sectors. In addition to petroleum, examples of Venezuelan exports to Belarus include sugar, rice, condensed milk, coffee, cocoa and fruits to Belarus.
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Although the first tankers laden with Venezuelan oil have already arrived, it is necessary to work faster for the Venezuelan oil deliveries to total four million tons.
Five shipments of crude have already been delivered to the two Belarusian oil refineries, with four transported through Odessa to the Mazyr refinery and one through Estonia’s Muuga seaport to the Naftan refinery in Navapolatsk, Vitsyebsk region.
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| Venezuelan petroleum is transported from Ukraine by rail to the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus |
The rail route from Estonia is shorter than that from Ukraine, as there is a distance of 850 kilometers (528 miles) between Muuga and Navapolatsk compared with 1,051 kilometers (653 miles) between Odessa and Mazyr.
The government also considers the possibility of bringing Venezuelan crude to Belarus via Latvian and Lithuanian seaports.
Source: On July 17, in the port of Odessa there arrived the fourth tanker with Venezuelan crude oil of Santa Barbara sort, destined for Belarus. As reported in the dispatching office of the port, there are 76.53 thousand tons of oil on the tanker's board.
Tanker unloading begins tonight and will take two days, BelaPAN informs.
As Telegraf already reported, the first tanker from Venezuela arrived in Odessa on April 25, the second - on June 19, the third - on June 29. The this crude oil is transported in tanks by rail to Mozyr oil refinery for further processing.
Besides that, Belarus is expecting the arrival of Venezuelan oil of Santa Barbara sort from Estonia and Lithuania in July of this year. It is planned that one tanker with 80 tons of oil for Belarus to arrive in the port of Estonia, and the second in Lithuanian port of Klaipeda, from where oil will be directed to Belarusian refineries.
From Estonian port of Muuga, oil will be transported by rail to Novopolotsk oil refinery Naftan. It is expected that it will happen in the third decade of July.
(photos and comments added to this article by Axis of Logic)
Source: Naviny Belarus News
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