TBILISI: Shipments of crude and refined oil products from Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi fell 11.8 percent year on year in the first seven months of 2016, a senior official at the terminal said on Monday.
The terminal, operated by Kazakh state energy company KazMunaiGas , shipped 1.973 million tonnes of oil and oil products in Jan-July, down from 2.238 million tonnes in the same period last year, said the official, who asked not to be identified. Shipments in July were 354,096 tonnes, up from 335,002 tonnes in the same month last year and from 283,151 tonnes in June 2016.
The terminal shipped 3.616 million tonnes of oil and oil products in 2015, down from 4.355 million in 2014. Crude and refined oil products from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are shipped out of Georgia's Black Sea ports of Batumi, Supsa, Poti and the terminal in Kulevi.
Some products are shipped across the Caspian Sea in small tankers, unloaded in the Azeri port of Baku and then sent by rail to Georgian ports for export to the Mediterranean.
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