SSG No 20 - Shipgaz

According to Edvinas Kateiva, the Market
Research Analyst at Klaipeda State
Seaport, the strong growth of containers
turnover has resulted in the launch of
the second container terminal, Klaipedos
Smelte. It is likely that this year Klaipeda
will handle 300,000 TEU.
Exchange of goods with Western Europe
accounts for 75 per cent of the goods passing
through Klaipeda State Seaport. The
share of transit may rise to 10 million tons
of the cargo turnover of 28 million forecast
for this year. According to the forecast fertilisers,
oil products and food from Belarus
will amount to 5.5 million tons and the
share of Russian goods will rise to 3 million
tons.
Oil import in Butinge
In the first nine months of this year the
Butinge terminal handled 3.8 million tons
of crude oil, which is a decrease of 16 per
cent year on year. Last autumn a third of
the turnover of the Butinge terminal was
comprised of imports, but this year all the
turnover was comprised of imports.
After the sale of the Mazheikiu Nafta to
the Polish PKN Orlen there is not much
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hope that the Druzhba oil pipeline will start
bringing crude oil to Mazheikiai. Therefore
PKN Orlen has searched for other opportunities
and expressed interest in buying
Klaipedos Nafta. However, the government
considers the state’s oil terminal to be of strategic
importance and does not want to sell,
because it allows for obtaining oil products
even if other transport routes are blocked.
The political coat that
was put on the K2 Project
rather interferes with than
helps to implement
this positive idea.
Literally, the end of the pipeline has been
turned the opposite way in Butinge: the
terminal, which was built for loading ships,
has done nothing but unloading ships this
year. Crude oil imported from South and
Central America by sea is transported to
Mazheikiai by pipeline and from there
oil products are transported to Klaipedos
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Nafta. It is natural that in order to keep
the scheme in operation PKN Orlen wants
to build a pipeline from the oil refinery of
Mazheikiu Nafta to the terminal of Klaipedos
Nafta.
The second oil terminal, Kroviniu Terminalas,
loads oil products brought from Kaliningrad
in smaller ships to larger ones and by
the end of the year approximately two million
tons of oil products will be handled.
The EU helps to build the port
The present passenger terminal of Klaipeda
is located behind the city, where the
port ends. However, a quarter of a million
passengers a year is a serious argument, so
the building of a new passenger and ro-ro
terminal by 2009 is planned, in a location
that is far more suitable for passengers.
For the first time the EU supports construction
of a port in Lithuania – investments
amounting to nearly EUR 87 million
have been planned for six years. Both
Klaipeda State Seaport and Port of Sventoji,
which is located north of Palanga, will
get about a half of the amount for port
construction purposes.
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