April 3, 2012 [The Warsaw Voice] - Polish city of Gdansk on the Baltic coast was removed from the list of destination ports for the exports of Russial oil after Russia launched the new terminal Ust Luga at the Gulf of Finland, the president of the Gdansk Naftoport oil terminal Dariusz Kobierecki told PAP news agency on Monday.
For more than 40 years a piping system called Przyjazn (Friendship), running through Belarus and Poland to Germany and through the Ukraine, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, has been the most important oil supply route for the Russians. The Gdansk Naftoport, which is connected to Plock where the Przyjazn reaches, has played a significant role in the transit.
The Russians exported 3.8 million of oil through the Gdansk terminal this year 1.3 million in the first quarter of this year. But there are no more orders, Naftoport president Dariusz Kobierecki said.
In 2011 Naftoport nettem more than PLN 11 million, 30 percent of which thanks to the exports of the Russian oil.
