OREANDA-NEWS. February 10, 2010. The volume of oil transportation via BTC increased by 8.6% this January.

SOCAR informs that 3.04 million tons of Azeri oil was delivered via BTC to Turkey’s Ceyhan port in January against 2.8 million tons in December 2009.

In 2009, transportation totaled 36.2 million tons and the last year’s highest figures were registered in May and June (by 3.3 million tons).

From the very start of the BTC operation in mid-2006 till 1st February 2009 109.6 million tons were delivered via BTC to Ceyhan.

For comparison: in January 2010 shipping from Ceyhan port made up 2.8 million tons. From the very start of BTC operation till 1st February 2010 export from Ceyhan totaled 107.5 million tons.