Central Energy Customs allows offshore bunkering on certain condition
Central Energy Customs of Russian Federal Customs Service authorizes bunkering operations at outer/inner anchorage of seaports, on certain condition though.
According to a teletypogram of Igor Golodayev, deputy chief of CEC, offshore bunkering is permitted for vessels to be supplied with fuel by specialized bunkering companies of vertically integrated structures “as participants of foreign economic activities with a low risk to violate the existing legislation”, as well as by “the fleet of other business entities” supplying fuel produced by refineries which were put into operation under orders of RF Ministry of Energy.
On August 22, 2013, Pavel Strelnikov, Chief of the Central Energy Customs (CEC) forwarded an instruction on the location designated for the customs operations in respect of goods declared as sea stores (including bunker fuels). According to the document, bunkering operations were allowed only at the berths of specialized oil terminals.
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