Thanks to a new business — oil transshipments from Odesa to Belarus — Ukraine’s oil imports are up 142% for the first half of this year,

Thanks to a new business — oil transshipments from Odesa to Belarus — Ukraine’s oil imports are up 142% for the first half of this year, compared to January-June 2019, reports Ukrtransnafta. Yuzhne’s Black Sea oil terminal today, a tanker is unloading 85,000 of Azeri light, is destined for Belarus’ Mozyr oil refinery, via the Odesa-Brody pipeline. This is the sixth tanker load destined for Belarus to dock in Odesa this year. After fighting with Russia over oil prices, Belarus turned late last year to importing oil from Lithuania and Ukraine. Of the $265 million worth of oil that Ukraine imported during the first half of this year, the State Customs Service reports: 65% came from Azerbaijan, 18% from the US, and 17% from Libya.