BFC makes first bunkering under a contract with Carnival Cruise Lines
St. Petersburg-based Baltic Fuel Company LLC (BFC) has delivered the first bunker fuel shipment under a contract with cruise operator Carnival Cruise Lines, the BFC press release said.
The BFC’s bunkering tanker Kapitan Shiryaev supplied today, May 4, 2012, 600 tons of fuel oil and 80 tons of diesel fuel to the cruise ship AIDA sol.
Under the contract terms BFC will deliver 160 bunker fuel shipments at the passenger port of St. Petersburg (Marine Façade Terminal) in the summer season - from May to September 2012. Overall, the Company was contracted to deliver 160,000 tons of bunker fuel, including 130,000 tons of fuel oil.
BFC will make bunkering to the CCL’s passenger ships using its own modern fleet that meets the requirements of Annex VI, MARPOL Convention. In particular, to execute the contract the Company will deploy the 5,000dwt tanker Kapitan Ponikarovsky and the 2,500dwt Captain Shiryaev.
St. Petersburg-headquartered Baltic Fuel Company was established in 2008 to manage bunkering companies of the holding. For over 10 years, the Group’s divisions have been engaged in oil product exports, bunkering operations, provision of environmental services, etc. The company boasts one of the largest bunkering fleet in the North-West of Russia, which comprises 31 vessels. Baltic Fuel Company ranks among top 3 leaders in the market of bunkering services at the ports of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region and is one of the three leading oil trucking companies in the country’s northwest region.