At the same time, domestic demand stayed almost unchanged at 145,000 tonnes last year, Joint Organisations Data Initiative (JODI) figures showed. In 2017, LPG exports from Belarus grew to 637,000 tonnes from 436,000 tonnes in 2016, according to the local statistics service. It can be used in cars, household utilities, as a feedstock in petrochemical industry and to produce electric power. LPG, or propane and butane, is usually cheaper than many other kinds of fuel, such as gasoline. Russian tensions with Ukraine and the West help Minsk work with Moscow and European states, gaining additional profit as a trade mediator and a way to gain access to the Eurasian Economic Union.īelarus became the leader this year in Russian LPG rail import, but the growth in supply is triggered not by a steep surge in domestic demand, but by profit from LPG re-export beyond the boundaries of the Eurasian Economic Union.īelarus ranked only fourth, behind Poland, Ukraine and Finland, in LPG supplies from Russia by land until 2017. This year Belarus also turned into a huge exporter of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to neighbouring Ukraine and Poland. MOSCOW/MINSK (Reuters) - Fed up with oysters and camambert from Belarus? Minsk is developing a more serious business by re-exporting Russian liquefied petroleum gas.Īfter Western sanctions were introduced against Moscow in 2014, Russia banned imports of fresh food products from Europe and Belarus become the supposed homeland for oysters and premium cheese so that local traders could export such goods to Russia.
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