Factbox: Russia's Rostov, seized by rebels, is important commodity hub

LONDON, June 24 (local world) - Following are information about oil, fuel and grains flows in Russia's southern location of Rostov, the place the capital Rostov-on-Don was once seized by means of Russian mercenaries.

President Vladimir Putin vowed on Saturday to crush what he referred to as an armed mutiny after rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin stated he had taken manage of Rostov-on-Don.

GRAINS

Russia is the world's biggest wheat exporter with Rostov being its 2nd biggest grain producing location and domestic to the Don river ports which connect vessels exporting grain with the Azov Sea.

"The scale of dangers is unknown at the moment. It all relies upon on how the scenario develops. For now, the entirety continues to work as it did," Andrey Sizov, head of Sovecon agriculture consultancy, said.

"But the timing, of course, is inconvenient," Sizov said, referring to the begin of harvesting in the area in about a week.

So a long way opponents from Prigozhin's non-public Wagner militia show up to have taken manage solely of the major metropolis in the area - Rostov-on-Don - and are advancing northwards via western Russia.

Russia's important grain exporting terminals on the Black Sea are in addition south, and this location has been unaffected by means of the trends so far.

The essential Black Sea port - Novorossiisk - continues to work as usual, two grain enterprise sources instructed Reuters on Saturday.

Russia is forecast to export 46.5 million tonnes of wheat in the new 2023/24 advertising and marketing season which starts offevolved on July 1, in accordance to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

OIL & GAS

The place of Rostov is now not a main electricity producer however various large oil and gasoline pipelines move its territory. Russia is the world's 2d biggest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia.

One such pipeline, Kuibyshev - Tikhoretsk, can furnish 0.8 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil to the port of Novorossiisk in the Krasnodar region, Russia's largest oil export port on the Black Sea.

Russia's pipeline monopoly Transneft controls many pump stations on the route, inclusive of in the Rostov region.

Rostov is additionally domestic to a mid-sized oil refinery Novoshakhtinsk, which can method 0.1 million bpd.

Several oil tanks had been reportedly on furnace in the Voronezh vicinity on Sunday, in accordance to Russian media, however they have no most important export importance.

Reported by Local world