Foreign news on April 20, Wednesday’s schedule showed that oil shipments to western Russian ports from May 1 to 10 were 2.54 million tons, down from 2.8 million tons in the same period in April, as exports from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk (Novorossiisk) fell.

The loading volume from May 1 to 10 will be down about 9% compared to the same period this month.

Ural oil exports from Baltic ports, Primorsk and Ust-Luga amounted to 2.2 million tons on May 1-10, unchanged from April 1-10.

On May 1-10, loading of Ural and Siberian light oil at the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea is scheduled for 340,000 tons, compared to 600,000 tons on April 1-10.