Petersburg Oil Terminal (POT) said it shipped 10.2 million metric tonnes (mt) of material from January to the end of October, 4% more than in the same period last year.
A statement from POT said the volume of ‘dark petroleum products’, or fuel oil, totalled 7.4 million mt, 5.7% more than in the first ten months of 2008.
In October, it reported similar percentage increases for the first nine months of the year.
POT provides trans-shipment and storage for oil products for export; it also provides bunkering services.
In 2008, the terminal, which has an annual throughput capacity of 12 million mt, handled 11.8 million mt of oil products, a 2.6% year-on-year increase.
Russia is an important source of fuel oil for the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp (ARA) bunker market and other European ports, much of it exported through St. Petersburg and other Baltic ports.