Gazprom Neft OJSC plans active development of its bunkering business. In view of its plans the company acquired a number of assets in the port of Primorsk. Gazprom Neft started this business only in the end of the previous year but it plans to cover 30% of Russia’s bunkering market by the end of 2010. Primorsk assets will enable the company to raise its sales to 300,000 tonnes per year. Experts say the interest of vertically integrated companies in bunkering market is a general trend as they try to deliver their product to the end user with overall control of the sales chain