May 30, 2011 [TREND News Agency] - As a result of dredging activities the berth â„–2 of Kulevi Oil Terminal of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has started to accept tankers with deadweight of 40,000 tons, SOCAR said.
Before dredging activities the berth could accept tankers with deadweight of 10,000 tons, but as a result of done work recently the berth accepted the first tanker with 40,000 tons deadweight, SOCAR said.
There are 3 functional berths in the port: one of them is for moorage of auxiliary fleet and the rest two are for loading operations. Berth â„–1 (length – 300 m and depth – 15 m) accepts tankers with DWT over 100 000 tons since October, 2009.
The terminal was put into operation in summer 2008. Its total capacity is 10 million tons of oil per year, including 3 million tons of oil, 3 million tons of diesel fuel, and 4 million tons of fuel oil.
The terminal can accommodate up to 168 tank cars. The tank farm’s total volume is 320,000 cubic meters with the possibility of increasing to 380,000 cubic meters. The port has two berths to load petroleum products in tankers of up to 100,000 tons.
