The volume of oil exported by Russia by sea has increased significantly over the past week, according to tanker traffic monitoring. Average daily shipment volumes rose to 3.4 million barrels last week, up 880,000 barrels from the previous week. writes about it Bloomberg.
Thus, exports reached the highest level of the last eight weeks, according to Bloomberg data. Bloomberg states that the increase in deliveries is affecting all major loading areas. Bloomberg also writes that most (almost two-thirds) of the additional volume falls on the Baltic ports of Primorsk and Ust-Luga.
Last week, shipping volumes from Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast showed a recovery, which fell due to stormy weather the previous day, Bloomberg reported. Deliveries from the port of Murmansk in the Barents Sea have also risen to a four-week high, the agency said.
In addition, export volumes from the Far East through the ports of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Vostochny and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky increased. The publication claims that shipments from the Far East peaked at five weeks in total.
Bloomberg writes that despite the increase in volumes, the four-week average daily exports are still 450,000 bpd below February levels. The main decline was in deliveries to Asia and Europe.
Bloomberg last week knowledgeablehttp://www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2023/08/22/21123590.shtmlIt is predicted that fuel exports from Russia will fall to the lowest level in 15 months.
Earlier it was known that India and China began to buy less oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia.