Bunker supplier BFC debuts in the port of Novorossiysk (photo release)

BFC-Yug, part of Baltic Fuel Company Group (BFC) that runs a program for expansion of its geographic footprint, on September 9, 2013 successfully bunkered the Malta-flagged TurkanSaylan dry bulk carrier (LOA - 138 m, Breadth - 25 m , Draft - 8.3 m, Displacement – 18,721 T) in the port of Novorossiysk, the Group said on Tuesday.

BFC Yug’s tanker Captain Shiryaev refueled the bulker with 300 metric tonnes of IFO380 HS and 50 mt of diesel fuel.

"This was the first step of Baltic Fuel Company Group in expansion of bunker sales volume in the port of Novorossiysk and other Russian ports of the Black Sea coast", the company said in a press release.

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.