
It needs to be said, that, for the time being, specialists consider several ways of acquiring the Latvian port infrastructure. Belarus can sign a long-term lease agreement with Latvia, can buy the infrastructure or the two sides may start a joint venture company.
According to the Belarusian party, in January-February 2007, the transit of goods through Latvian ports increased by 20 per cent. In 2006, over 3 million tons of potash fertilizers and roughly 8.5 million tons of oil products were transported through the ports of Latvia. Nearly 80 per cent of the Belarusian exports transported by sea pass through Latvia and predominantly through the sea-ports of this country.