While the European Union is developing a common point of view on the embargo on Russian oil, Greek tankers were the main carriers of this raw materials, Anadolu writes.
It is Greek players that help Moscow set new records for income from the sale of energy resources, the message says. The already published packages of anti -Russian sanctions of the European Union affected many sectors of the Russian economy, but the leaders of European countries continue to negotiate on the acute issue of Russian oil.
The agency draws attention to the fact that, although European companies began to avoid the purchase of oil from Russia, the export of this raw material does not fall contrary to expectations. According to VortExa, the Energy Complete Energy Cargoes, the continuing procurement by the European Union and increase oil supplies from Russia to Asia contribute to the fact that Russian oil exports remains on average at the level of 3.6 million barrels per day, which is about 400 thousand barrels exceeds the average daily volume of black gold exports in the first quarter of the current year, writes the newspaper.
The growth of oil cargo transportation from Russian ports of the Baltic and Black Seas into European waters leads to an increase in exports: in the first quarter, the volume of such supplies was an average of 1.8 million barrels per day, in April and May it grew to 2.3 million barrels per day. Only 900 thousand barrels of Russian oil per day enter the ports of Greece. This country has become an important transport hub: here the raw materials are redirected to other countries by transferring from one vessel to another. Now 63% of Russian oil is transporting Greek tankers.
According to the chief economist of the Institute of International Finance Robin Brooks, it is Greece that allows Russia to generate such a large surplus of account in oil trade.