Commercial Port of Vladivostok to upgrade bunker storage depot

Commercial Port of Vladivostok (VMTP OJSC) plans to upgrade its bunker storage deprevealed, will take three years. The upgrading will be carried out at the expense of Commercial Port of Vladivostok. The operator of the expanded storage depot has not been determined yet, Aleksandr Bashkov noted. He saot and to raise its capacity to 1-1.5 million tonnes of oil products per year, PortNews IAA learnt at the exhibition TRANSRUSSIA 2008 from Aleksandr Bashkov, deputy Commercial Director of VMTP OJSC. According to Aleksandr Bashkov, the depot’s annual capacity is 300,000-400,000 tonnes of oil products but it does not meet modern requirement so the decision was taken to upgrade it. Implementation of the project, the value of which has not been id a managing company may be established for that purpose. Fuel from the storage depot is to be delivered to vessels and to the northern territories.