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The EU closes its ports to only a few Russian ships
To be excluded, in fact, are those (the majority) that transport agricultural and food products, humanitarian aid and energy products
April 6, 2022
Meanwhile, the latest data released by Eurostat confirm that even in the second quarter of 2021 Russia was the the European Union's main trading partner commercial by sea in terms of weight of goods handled, with Russia which was found to account for 14.0% of the total extra-EU maritime transport, with a volume handled which recorded a growth of +11.8% on the corresponding period of 2020.
In particular, Eurostat states that a significant share of the EU maritime transport with Russia is constituted from the import into the European Union of liquid bulk, volume mainly represented by crude oil and petroleum products refined from Russian ports on the Baltic Sea and the Sea Black. In addition, imports showed strong growth. European coal from Russian ports in the Baltic Sea (+63.5%).
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