KIEV, May 22 – UkrTransNafta, Ukraine’s oil shipper, on Thursday signed a contract with Mero CR, the Czech Republic’s state oil company, to arrange an important test-run shipment of crude to a Czech oil refinery in Kralupy.

The test-run is aimed at proving that it is possible to move Caspian Sea oil via Druzhba oil pipeline, the same pipeline that is currently moving Russian oil to the European Union.