Primorsk Shipping Corporation is ready for the arctic navigation of 2008 year which presumably starts early June, the company informs. Agreements for the delivery of oil products to the settlements of Chukotka and Eastern Arctic have been already concluded with the company’s longstanding partner “Chukotsnab’’.
According to Yuri Godlevskiy, the Head of Charter Division, two tankers of 17,000 tons deadweight and one tanker of 3,000 tons are scheduled to operate in these directions. By the end of September, tankers have to deliver more than 100,000 tons of different bulk liquid cargoes to the customers. This delivery is quarter greater than last year one.
The main destination points will be Anadyr, Egvekinot, Provideniya, Beringovsky, Lavrentiya, Enmelen, Pevek, Ratmanov Island, and Uelen. Tankers of PRISCO will provide the northerners with the light oil products, diesel oil, petrol and kerosene.