Snopkov: transshipment of Belarusian cargo through Russian ports increased by 400% in half a year

The transshipment of Belarusian cargo through Russian ports increased by 400% percent over the first half of the year – as reported by Belarus’ First Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Snopkov at a meeting with the President on the creation of port facilities and the draft decree on the sale of potash fertilisers

According to Nikolai Snopkov, 1.5 million tonnes of Belarusian cargo were transported through Russian seaports in H1 2022 while in 2023 this volume amounted to almost 6 million tonnes, “The growth is 400 percent. Almost the entire volume (97 percent) is chemical mineral fertilisers, oil and oil products. The results of the work begun in April last year to organise the transshipment of Belarusian potash through the seaports of the north-west and south of Russia today enable us to have port capacities for transshipment of about one million tonnes of products per month.”

The First Deputy PM noted that it was possible to achieve cost-effective conditions for transshipment to the terminals of the St. Petersburg ports. In H1 2023, 2.7 million tonnes of potash fertilisers were shipped through them.