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| Ukraine Bought ‘All The Gas Trucks Available In Europe' To Keep Fueled |
| 2023-02-16 |
| [The Drive] Despite massive Russian attacks against its power and fuel supply infrastructure, Ukraine claims it has actually increased its fuel reserves to the point of surplus thanks to the influx of imports and an innovative logistics operation using thousands of fuel trucks as mobile storage sites. Ukraine began receiving large amounts of fuel in January from the U.S., and over the course of Russia's all-out invasion, purchased thousands of fuel tanker trucks to create a mobile storage system, said Serhiy Kuyun, director of the A-95 Consulting Group, a Ukrainian fuel market research firm. "Revolutionary changes have taken place," in the Ukrainian fuel supply chain, Kuyun told reporters Wednesday during a briefing at the Ukrainian Media Center. "There has never been this [American] fuel in Ukraine. There is also fuel from Taiwan, India, and the Netherlands." That's a change from before Moscow's full-on invasion, when Ukraine received the majority of its fuel from Russia and Belarus. But beyond new sources of fuel, Ukraine has developed a mobile storage method that Kuyun claims defies Russian attempts to bomb its supplies out of existence. Ukraine "bought all the fuel tank trucks that were available in Europe," he said. He did not say when those purchases took place, who funded them or how much they cost. But they’ve made a huge difference, he claimed. "The logistics system has radically changed," he said. "Before the war we supplied fuel by rail and sea, now 40% of our supplies are road transport. These are thousands of gasoline trucks that from a security vantage point are impossible to catch. You can bomb an oil depot, an oil refinery, aim at a railway station. But what to do with these thousands of gasoline trucks? This is a revolutionary thing." |
| Posted by:Thruter Gloluger6393 |
| #1 We see how well that worked for Syria. The distribution of this will also be interesting. Israel exports crude oil for first time, with shipment heading for Europe |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-02-16 13:12 |