North-Caucasus Railway loading of oil and oil products up 20% in 10M06

In the 10-month period of 2006 North-Caucasus Railway loaded 13 million tons of oil and oil products (+ almost 20%, year-on-year), NCRW’s press center reports. According to marketing experts, in October NCRW loaded about 1.3 million tons of oil and oil products (+3% against October 2006). The experts attribute this increase to growing production volumes of Afipsky refinery. The reconstruction being carried out without production termination almost doubled design capacity of the plant. In October 2006, the refinery loaded over 195 thou tons of oil products (125% against year-on-year result).  Rosneft also increased volume of cargo dispatched from the Novaya Zhizn station: about 900 thou tons in 10M06 (+29% against year-on-year result). Krsnodareconeft dispatched about 190 thou tons of oil products in October 2006, which is 113.5% against year-on-year result. Loading of Rosneft-Tuapsenefteproduct oil and oil products at Tuapse totaled over 19 thou tons in October 2006 (about 175%, year-on-year).