ASTANA, Feb. 18 - The new route of Kazakh oil transportation through Poland has turned out to be more economic than that through Ukraine, said Kairgeldy Kabyldin, the head of Kazakh National Company KazMunayGas.

"We turned to our Russian colleagues for help and they offered us a route that has turned out to be more economic than through Odessa," he told a Thursday press conference in Astana.

According to Kabyldin, as much as 3.5 million tons of Kazakh oil was re-routed to Gdansk.