In the first ten months of 2016, Latvia imported 162.66 mln liters of gasoline from Lithuania, accounting for 62.1% of all gasoline imports during the period (66.2% in January-October 2015), and 93.425 mln liters of gasoline or 35.7% from Finland. Gasoline imports from Lithuania dropped 7.5% y-o-y, while gasoline imports from Finland increased 11.1% compared to January-October 2015.
Lithuania also supplied Latvia with 590,808 tons of diesel fuel in the first ten months of this year, representing 48.1% of total diesel fuel imports during the period (42% in January-October 2015). Diesel fuel imports from Lithuania decreased 0.3% y-o-y.
Finland supplied 31% or 380,887 tons of diesel fuel imported to Latvia in the first ten months of this year, which was a 21.9% decrease from January-October 2015, Russia supplied 14.4% or 176,451 tons of diesel fuel, up 14.4% y-o-y, and 77,477 tons of diesel fuel or 6.3 % were imported from Belarus, which was 2.3 times less than a year ago.
In the first ten months of this year Latvia imported fuel oil mostly from Estonia, which supplied 93.7% of all fuel oil imports during the period. The amount of fuel oil imported from Estonia was 1,424 tons at a 72.6% rise from January-October 2015.
In January-October 2016, Latvia imported 261.845 mln liters of gasoline, 1.228 mln tons of diesel fuel and 1,520 tons of fuel oil.
