In earlier years, this materials was actively provided to Russia by way of Latvia and Estonia, however the aggressor nation used it within the manufacturing of weapons.
The Latvian transit trade is looking for new cargo to interchange manganese ore. In flip, “Latvijas dzelzceļš” (LDz), taking into consideration the impression of common sanctions, is making ready a request to the federal government for state co-financing within the quantity of 32 million euros.
Statistics requested by LTV, collected by customs, present that for the reason that starting of the warfare in Ukraine, the amount of exports and transit of manganese ore has elevated considerably. Final yr, a million tons transited by way of Latvia, regarding half one million tons had been imported and barely much less had been exported.
Furthermore, manganese ore had not been imported into Latvia earlier than.
It is very important observe that this yr, even following information of recent sanctions, the stream of manganese ore has slowed, however not stopped utterly. Carriers have been given a month to do away with these cargoes.
No loss estimates
Neither the Ministry of Economic system nor the Ministry of Transport have supplied estimates of what the losses for the transport trade might be.
In accordance with the Minister of Economic system Viktor Valainis (Union of Greens and Farmers), if solely Latvia banned the transit of manganese ore, the losses would quantity to a number of million, and one determination all through Europe would have minimal impression on our competitiveness.
Nonetheless, new mechanisms to help the port’s operations are at the moment being developed along with the Ministry of Transport.
“We’ll always monitor this, see if any of the ports will want any state help in case these port charges can not cowl the present prices,” Valainis mentioned.
In any case, state help for ports, whether it is wanted, is unquestionably not as huge as LDz, famous Valainis.
In accordance with LDz, the corporate’s subsidiary LDZ Cargo transported 1.4 million tons of manganese ore final yr. And this yr, though in a lot smaller volumes, these cargoes continued to reach by rail each month. For instance, 86 thousand tons had been transported this month.
LDz partially replaces the discount in cargo volumes with new teams of cargo, however can not totally compensate for the discount in cargo volumes, mentioned LDz consultant Agnese Licite:
“Observing these tendencies, the implications, in fact, shall be that public funding will proceed to be vital to make sure the monetary steadiness of LDz. Sure, in recent times cash has been requested from the federal government to make sure the monetary steadiness of the enterprise.”
The railway infrastructure improvement plan for 2023-2027 has been submitted to the federal government. This yr, based on essentially the most sensible situation, the state-owned firm will want 32 million euros to make sure its monetary steadiness for final yr and 12 million this yr. The federal government might determine on this funding on the finish of the yr.
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2024-06-30 18:29:23
