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Bypassing Russia: Oil shipment from Kazakhstan’s largest offshore development reopens abandoned Caspian export route

Japan’s Inpex sends first shipment from Kazakh port of Aktau to Baku, Azerbaijan, despite apparently high shipping costs

Open sea: the Caspian port city of Aktau in western Kazakhstan.
Open sea: the Caspian port city of Aktau in western Kazakhstan.Photo: REUTERS/SCANPIX
  • Vladimir Afanasiev
Published 22 March 2023, 06:24Updated 22 March 2023, 16:24
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