The agreement will enable the use of storage tanks high-performance liquid fertilizer UAN (urea-ammonium nitrate) with capacity of 40 thousand tons in Rouen and 15 thousand tons in Ghent. Rent storage began on may 1, 2018.

The Rubis terminal in Rouen will receive CASS-32 from the factories "Akron" in Russia and to ship products to the French consumers road, rail and water transport.

Terminal Fertigent in Ghent allows for further dilution of the solution during the loading of road tankers for shipment to customers. Deliveries will be aimed at consumers from Belgium and from Northern and Eastern regions of France.

The first ship with 33 thousand tons of UAN-32 were shipped to Rouen from terminal BCT, part of the Group "Akron" (port of sillamäe, Estonia) in the last month.

Dmitry Khabrat, Vice-President for foreign economic activity of JSC "Akron", said: "the hire of the tank capacity will ensure timely delivery CAS buyers in Western Europe, to strengthen the position and increase the volume of sales in this important market. According to our calculations, sales through both terminals in the current year considerably will exceed 300 thousand tons."

Total sales of CAS, JSC "Akron" in Western Europe will amount to over 400 thousand tons.

The company Acron France SAS was founded in 2017.

Source: JSC Acron