In January, oil transit through Ukraine decreased by 16.5% compared to December to 2,557 thousand tons. This was reported to "Ukrainian News" by sources in the Ministry of Fuel and Energy.\n\nThe Dnipro oil pipelines reduced oil transit by 35.2% to 822 thousand tons.\n\nThe "Druzhba" oil pipeline also reduced transit by 3.4% to 1,735 thousand tons.\n\nOil transit through Ukraine in January 2005 increased by 6% compared to January 2004.