Since April, 2.123 million tonnes of Iraqi fuel oil have crossed Syria by road to Baniyas. At roughly 30 tonnes per road tanker, this equates to about 70,800 loaded journeys.
Two routes are operating. The first runs through the al-Waleed-al-Tanf crossing and opened with a convoy of 299 tankers carrying Iraqi fuel oil towards Baniyas. The second runs through Rabia-Yarubiyah, which Iraq reopened in April after more than a decade of closure, adding capacity for supplies from northern Iraq and easing congestion at al-Waleed.
The operation began with a handful of vehicles, but traffic has now reportedly reached around 1,000 tankers per day, with discussions under way to double current volumes. Baniyas is unloading around 900 tankers daily and loading roughly one seagoing vessel every seven to ten days.
The fuel is discharged into storage tanks and pumped onto ships for export rather than refined in Syria. Cargoes have already reached Spain, Egypt and the United States, making Syria an increasingly important Mediterranean outlet for Iraqi petroleum products.
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