BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.7
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
Ukrainian subsidiary of Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR supplied 2,300 tons of bitumen to the Cantarell Ukraine company in March 2021, Trend reports with reference to Ukrainian media.
The company delivered the abovementioned volumes by sea.
Around 24,900 tons of road bitumen were imported to Ukraine in March 2021, which is almost four times more than in March 2020 (6,400 tons).
The largest volume of bitumen was received from Belarus (13,400 tons), which accounted for about 55 percent of the total imports.
Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR’s representative office opened in Ukraine in 2008.
The company acquired about 20 Tala-Nafta filling stations in Odessa and Nikolaev regions. as well as Svitanok large oil depot in Odessa region in 2009.
The company took control of the fuelling networks ONIO (four filling stations in Kyiv and the region) and GFC (in Lviv region) in 2010-2011. SOCAR received permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to purchase 26 filling stations and one tank farm of the Kalina group in August 2012.
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