Last Monday in the port of Trieste the first shipment of crude oil from Syria after 14 years of civil war in the Middle Eastern nation. This was announced by the consulting firm S&P Global Commodity Insights, specialized in the energy and raw materials sectors, explaining that the cargo of about 640 thousand barrels of crude oil acid embarked on the oil tanker Nissos Christiana, which left last September 1st from the Syrian port of Tartous, was partly unloaded at the Sarroch terminal from where the ship left with 440 thousand barrels remaining on board direct at the SIOT terminal of the Julian port.

S&P Global Commodity Insights recalled last July The US lifted sanctions against Syria opening the doors to trade relations with nations that comply with US sanctions.