First Deputy General Director of SovComFlot Nikolai Kolesnikov presented at the XXIX annual conference of the CERA WEEK-2010 in Houston (USA), a joint project with the Swedish Stena Bulk of a B-Max 200.000-DWT tanker. The tanker could carry simultaneously two standard 100.000 shipment of crude oil, which would make the marine transportation more effective and profitable and reduce the intensive traffic in the environmentally sensitive region as the Baltic Sea, the SovComFlot press service reported.
The information that Sovkomflot and Russian oil and gas companies have planned a joint project to launch in 2010 pilot freight shipments along the Northern Sea route to the East for the delivery of Russian hydrocarbons to customers in the Asia-Pacific gave rise to much interest among the conference participants.
The information that Sovkomflot and Russian oil and gas companies have planned a joint project to launch in 2010 pilot freight shipments along the Northern Sea route to the East for the delivery of Russian hydrocarbons to customers in the Asia-Pacific gave rise to much interest among the conference participants.