(MENAFN) Russia’s ambassador to China stated that Beijing has been holding discussions with Moscow on raising fossil fuel deliveries to China. Nonetheless, regardless of the Russian willingness to collaborate, transportation issues may hamper the efforts.
Russia’s Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov said to journalists in the present week: “the Chinese economy is quite rapidly recovering from the [Covid-19] pandemic crisis [but] there are certain imbalances that no one hides here. And, according to the forecasts that we see in the open press, ahead lies a cold winter; the northeast, which is closer to us, may well face a certain deficit. For this reason, yes, they really ask us to consider the possibility of increasing supplies. We are, of course, ready.”
Denisov noted: “in addition to coal, we [have] a new product that emerged last year – natural gas. Last year we supplied it in a trial mode through the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, bringing the supply to about 5 billion cubic meters. This year we planned to increase it to 10 billion cubic meters, since we cannot bring everything to full capacity yet,”. He added that even though the Russian authorities have approved the increase in deliveries, certain problems remain.
He continued: “this is not so much a government issue as a question of companies – mining and transporting companies. Certain difficulties we have are not so much in volumes, but in transport capabilities and equipment of border crossings.”
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