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    Cantarella Ukraine has purchased a tanker batch of 3.5 thousand tons of bitumen produced by the Greek processor Motor Oil Hellas. This is the first delivery of bitumen by sea to the Ukrainian market. with reference to the CTS. The country used to import small consignments of goods from Azerbaijan, which were delivered in automobile and railway tanks by ferry. "We are diversifying supplies due to the limited supply of imported bitumen, large batches of which can now be purchased only in Belarus and Poland," said company director Bekhan Elmurzaev. At the same time, bitumen from Russia has not entered the country since May 2019 due to the Russian government's ban on exporting the product in this direction. The Greek product was shipped on a Starpower bitumen tanker (deadweight - 4.9 thousand tons) in the port of St. Theodore on August 3, according to the schedule, the ship delivered the cargo to the port of Ochakov (Mykolaiv region) on August 7. It is noted that bitu...

The island of Gallinara in Italian Liguria was sold a few days ago for more than 10 million euros. It was bought by the son of the former owner of the Motor Sich company, ex-regional Vyacheslav Boguslaev. It is reported by the Italian edition Corriere della Sera . “This is the only real island in Liguria: a nature reserve, rich in history, 1.5 kilometers from the coast between Albenga and Alacia, which for centuries belonged to the Church, and then, in the last 150 years, to wealthy bankers and industrialists,” the media said. According to him, the island, which in the Middle Ages served as a refuge for popes, was bought by Alexander Boguslaev from nine families of owners who had owned Gallinara for more than 40 years. Boguslaev bought their houses on top of the island separately at a price of, according to some sources, several million euros. According to the newspaper, 42-year-old Alexander Boguslaev has citizenship of Grenada. Negotiations on the acquisition of the island began in M...