Vysotsk terminal handles first fuel oil-laden ATB
The first articulated tag / barge (ATB) unit laden with a cargo of 4.5 tons of export fuel oil was unloaded at Vysotsk-based RPK ‘Lukoil-II’terminal.
On May 7th, the tug / barge unit, barge “Taisiya" (Thais) owned by Baltic Fuel Company and the tug Moshchny (Powerful) docked at the terminal with a cargo of oil products from Ukhta refinery. The BFC’s vessel took on board the cargo in St. Petersburg at Berth # 16 NW).
PortNews had reported about OAO LUKOIL’s plans to change the scheme of dark oil product exports delivered by river through inland waterways of Russia: http://portnews.ru/top_news/97661/.
In 2011, Russian oil product exports through the terminal RPK Vysotsk "LUKOIL II» (Leningrad region) amounted to 9,687, 600 tons (209 tankers), a nearly 20-percent drop year-over-year.