In January, the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of Belarus adopted a resolution "on which the previously valid tariffs for oil transportation (transit) services were indexed by 6.7%". Since February 1, it came into force. And already today, oil transportation services along the main pipelines of Gomeltransneft Druzhba OJSC on the Unecha (Vysokoe) - Adamov Zastava route have risen to 307.19 Russian rubles per 1 tonne without VAT. And on the route Unecha (High) - Brody they will cost 131.95 rubles. , writes RIA Novosti. At the same 6.7%, the prices for transportation of Russian black gold via the main pipelines of Gomeltransneft Druzhba and Polotsktransneft Druzhba along the Nevel-Polotsk-Naftan route (up to 37.51 Russian rubles per 1 tonne without VAT) , on the route Unecha (High) - Polotsk - JSC "Naftan" (up to 144 rubles. ), on the route Unecha (Vysokoye) - Mozyr - JSC Mozyr Oil Refinery (up to 65.47 Russian rubles). The same services have risen in price in Belarusian rubles. Minsk and Moscow have often argued about tariffs for the transit of black gold through Belarus. This was due to disagreements over the supply of oil and gas to this country. In particular, in 2016 year. Minsk demanded that Moscow lower the price of gas. But, since by March Belarus owed more than $ 600 million for blue fuel, Russia refused to reduce its cost, they remind Dni. EN.

Belarus in response wanted to increase the cost of pumping Russian oil by an average of 50% from October of the same year. But the two countries agreed: Moscow will restore the volume of duty-free oil supplies to the republic, and Minsk will cancel the decision to raise tariffs for its transit.

And negotiations on the magnitude, which should be increased tariffs for pumping oil, continued. And after a long discussion of the size of indexation from February 1, 2017. The transit tariff for the year was increased by 7.7%. Also, Minsk and Moscow agreed that if they can not come to an agreement on the level of indexation of tariffs, the rule will follow, according to which the transit price will rise to the level of the Russian average annual inflation forecast for the year under discussion, plus 3%.