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Discounts have revitalized the Vertical Corridor

After Romanian Transgaz and its Moldovan subsidiary Vestmoldtransgaz announced a 50% reduction in regulated tariffs for gas transportation to Ukraine through Romania and Moldova via the Trans-Balkan pipeline (known as the Vertical Corridor), the three companies have booked its capacity for November. Until two months ago, there was no interest in this route at all, Logos Press reported.
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Discounts have revitalized the Vertical Corridor

Total booked capacity is 0.6 million cubic meters per day.

Among the companies that have booked capacities for gas imports from Greece to Ukraine are Greek DEPA Commercial, D.Trading (a subsidiary of Ukraine’s largest gas producer DTEK) and Swiss Axpo Trading.

Overall, the GTS operators of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece offered to book almost 1.9m cu.m./day of capacity for November.

The companies did not book capacity along this route for September and October, which resulted in no gas imports.

Previously, the route actually operated for two months (July-August), and supplies stopped in September 2025 due to high tariffs and lack of long-term guaranteed conditions for access to capacity. In total, analysts estimate that from January 2025, when Ukraine joined the Vertical Corridor initiative, 18 million cubic meters of natural gas was delivered to Ukraine until transportation was halted.

In addition to discounts, another reason for the increased interest in this route is Ukraine’s need to increase natural gas imports ahead of the heating season after domestic production collapsed significantly as a result of Russian attacks.


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