WASHINGTON: Lithuania’s Butinge crude terminal handled 7.292 million tons of oil during the ten months through October 2015, up 23% from 5.928 million tons in the same period last year; the Klaipeda port authority reported LETA/BNS.
In October alone, throughput at the Butinge terminal, which is owned by Orlen Lietuva, the Lithuanian unit of Poland’s PKN Orlen, increased by 27.4% year-on-year to 902,900 tons. Month-on-month, it was up by 29.1%.
Annual throughput at the terminal last year declined by 18.2% to 7.332 million tons. Orlen Lietuva has been importing crude oil via Butinge solely for its own needs since mid-2006.
