MOSCOW, March 10 (Reuters) - Crude oil exports and
transit from Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiisk were
suspended on March 10 due to a storm, Reuters sources said on
Friday.
In February the port loaded only 1.4 million tonnes of crude
compared with the 2.38 million tonnes planned, including 1.0
million tonnes of Russian fuel and 0.4 million tonnes of
Kazakhstan's transit volumes.
Due to repeated storms Novorossiisk failed to load 0.98
million tonnes of crude from the February programme. Of this
0.82 million tonnes were carried over to March, while the
loading of 0.16 million tonnes was cancelled, the data showed.
As of March 10, the port has still to load 100,000 tonnes of
Urals from February loading plan.
(Reporting by Reuters, Editing by Louise Heavens)
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