Port of Vysotsk oil products volume down 7%, to 4,58m tons

Shipments of petroleum products through the oil terminal RPK Vysotsk LUKOIL II in January-May 2011 declined 7% compared with the same period last year, to 4,58 million tons, the Port Authority said.

In May, the terminal handled 1,05 million tons, a 20-percent drop from a year earlier.

The marine terminal RPK Vysotsk LUKOIL-II is owned by Russian largest private oil company LUKOIL. Bunkering operations are carried out by a LUKOIL’s subsidiary LUKOIL-Bunker. In 2010, the terminal handled 12,3 million tons of oil products versus 13,8 million tons a year earlier.