April 18, 2011 [PortNews] - Rosneftbunker’s export oil terminal has handled the Primorsky Prospekt tanker, the first Aframax size vessel (owner Sovcomflot, SCF Group) ever called at the port of Ust-Luga (Leningrad region).
The port’s stevedore loaded 92,000 tons of fuel oil onto the tanker, the Sovkomflot’s press release said.
The 114,000DWT tanker has Ice Class 1B. The ship’s overall length is 250 m, beam – 44 m, max. draft – 15 m. The Primorsky Prospekt was designed to operate in the Baltic and the Far East seas, for transportation of hydrocarbons from the Russian ports of Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Kozmino.
Rosneftbunker’s export oil terminal was launched in a test mode on Jan. 31st 2011 when the first 44-ton cargo of fuel oil was loaded onto a tanker of 44,125dwt.
Customer-developer of the oil terminal is Gunvor’s business unit Rosneftbunker. The terminal’s projected capacity is 30 million tons of exported oil products a year. This year Rosneftbunker plans to handle 10-11 million tons.
St.Petersburg-headquartered Sovcomflot (SCF Group) ranks the fifth top tanker company in the world. The Company specializes in global transportation of crude oil, petroleum products and other energy sources. The Group’s fleet comprises 154 vessels of total deadweight of nearly 12 million tons, the average age of the tanker fleet is 6,6 years. SCF’s newbuildings program includes 15 vessels of total deadweight of about 1,72 million tons.
