In October alone, throughput at the Butinge terminal, which is owned by Orlen Lietuva, the Lithuanian unit of Poland's PKN Orlen, increased by 27.4% year-on-year to 902,900 tons. Month-on-month, it was up by 29.1%.
Annual throughput at the terminal last year declined by 18.2% to 7.332 million tons.
Orlen Lietuva has been importing crude oil via Butinge solely for its own needs since mid-2006.