{"id":528855,"date":"2026-03-27T08:41:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T05:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=528855"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:30:09","slug":"belarus-exported-11-6-million-tonnes-of-potash-fertilizers-via-russian-ports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-exported-11-6-million-tonnes-of-potash-fertilizers-via-russian-ports","title":{"rendered":"Belarus Exported 11.6 Million Tonnes of Potash Fertilizers via Russian Ports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus exported 11.6 million tonnes of potash fertilizers via Russian ports in 2025, according to a report by Kommersant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/8536008?from=glavnoe_5\">published<\/a> on the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Belaruskali.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, half of Belarusian potash last year was shipped through the Bronka port, 25% via Ust-Luga, 9% by rail to China and CIS countries, 8% through JSC PKS (St. Petersburg), and 7% via BazisPort (St. Petersburg).<\/p>\n<p>The publication also reports that as of November 2025, discussions on building a Belarusian port in Russia with a capacity of 10 million tonnes of fertilizers were still ongoing. Options under consideration included Bronka, a port in the Far East, and river transportation. There is also a project for a Belarusian port in Murmansk. Recently, Murmansk Region Governor <b>Andrei Chibis<\/b> visited Minsk.<\/p>\n<p>Fertilizer market analyst <b>Aleksandr Vorontsov<\/b> of MMI said in comments to Kommersant that the lifting of sanctions is unlikely to have a significant impact on the global potash market. The article also expresses doubts that the U.S. decision will alter the logistics of Belarusian supplies. However, the United States could become a new buyer. According to Vorontsov, January statistics suggest the U.S. is changing its import structure: Canada\u2019s share fell from 88% in 2025 to 80% in January, while Russia\u2019s share doubled to 18%.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Given tensions in U.S.-Canada relations, the lifting of sanctions on Belaruskali and efforts to diversify potassium chloride supplies, imports from Belarus in the near future are highly likely,&#8221;<\/i> the newspaper quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus exported 11.6 million tonnes of potash fertilizers via Russian ports in 2025, according to a report by Kommersant published on the lifting of U.S. sanctions on Belaruskali. According to the newspaper, half of Belarusian potash last year was shipped through the Bronka port, 25% via Ust-Luga, 9% by rail to China and CIS countries, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":528854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c64e24ee14f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus Exported 11.6 Million Tonnes of Potash Fertilizers via Russian Ports"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[143118,143122],"class_list":["post-528855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business","tag-belarus","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}