Logistic Disaster At Belaruskali

Three of the five mining departments continue to stand idle in Salihorsk.

Nasha Niva learned that three out of five mining departments of Belkali do not actually dig or ship salts in Salihorsk. This is connected with the catastrophe in logistics as a result of the sanctions of the European Union and the United States.

“They explain everything to the staff with repair work and promise that everything will start going,” says the source of the publication.

According to the informed people, Belkali continues small shipments for export, which "they are trying to shove small quantities through Russia, since potassium mathematics now allows you to earn even this way", the power of two mines is enough for this.

The other day, Minister of Finance Yury Seliverstrau recognized in an interview that there are problems with receipts of payments from the sanctioned sectors of the economy, the export of potash fertilizers and oil products, and didn't adjust yet.

"The end of 2023 is the only expected date for the completion of a terminal near St. Petersburg, through which potash could be transported by sea after the lockdown in Lithuania, and these are optimistic estimates made even before the war," add the informed people.

Moreover, the terminal may be unsuitable if European countries prohibit the entry of Russian ships into their ports. Documents with such an option lie on tables of the European capitals together with a trade blockade of Russia. Europe will take such a step if Russia does not stop the war in Ukraine — a war for which Aliaksandr Lukashenka allowed Belarus to be used as a place of arms.

Belkali received a major logistical blow after the arrest by Ukraine of five thousand freight wagons of the Belarusian Railways due to martial law. Now, these wagons are critically needed to deliver goods to Russia. The price of each of the wagons is about 80 thousand dollars. There were plans to order at "Uralvagonzavod" additional three thousand even before the arrest, but now it is necessary eight thousand.

"For the first time Belaruskali appealed to one of the state-owned banks to finance the payment of wages for employees,” a source says of the publication.