"This is not the first year, nor the last, that Belaruskali does not have contracts at the start of the year. For example, China has stacked its warehouses. Everybody knows that they will not take any (fertilizers) until July. This is normal practice. Also, Belaruskali has a contract with India in effect until March and thus there can be no talk about a new contract," it quoted Vidmantas Dambrauskas, CEO of Klaipėda's Birių Krovinių Terminalas (Bulk Cargo Terminal), as saying.
Dambrauskas added that he did not think that fertilizer shipments would change direction and move to the neighboring court of Ventspils.
The terminal exceeded last year's 25 percent growth target for annual cargo handling almost twofold. Currently, it has an annual handling capacity of 7 million tons.
