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Soviet delays raise prices

Journal Article · · Chemical Week
OSTI ID:486365
The breakup of the Soviet Union is causing massive disruptions to methanol exports. The changeover to a Commonwealth of independent States has created logistical problems which have led some shipments of Russian methanol to be cancelled and delayed other deliveries by up to two weeks. In recent years the Soviet Union has exported 700,000 m.t./year-900,000 m.t./year of methanol, mainly to Western Europe. The product is made at 750,000-m.t./year plants at Tomsk and Gubakha in Russia and transported by rail for shipment from the ports of Ventspils, Latvia, on the Baltic Sea and Yuzhnyy in Ukraine, on the Black Sea. The exports were handled by state export agency Soyuzagrochim, mainly under contract to West European traders and consumers in areas like Scandinavia and France.
OSTI ID:
486365
Journal Information:
Chemical Week, Journal Name: Chemical Week Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 150; ISSN CHWKA9; ISSN 0009-272X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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