Refueling ships at Port of Vladivostok, its offshore bunkering locations dropped 3 times to 135,000 tonnes in Jan-Apr 2016

The total four-month volume of bunker fuel supplied to ships at the Port of Vladivostok and at its offshore locations reached about 135,000 tonnes, which is a threefold drop from a year earlier (versus 418,000 tonnes), the Authority of Primorsky Territory and the Eastern Arctic told IAA PortNews.

One third of this volume has been supplied at offshore western, eastern and inner anchorage locations. The rest of bunker fuel was sold at the port.

Number of bunkering operations increased this year remained flat, nearly at the level of last year (1106 / 1091). The fuels sold includes heavy fuel oil (102,000 tonnes), LMF – 30,000 tonnes, and the rest was diesel fuel.