Over 32,000 t of marine fuels have been delivered by Gazpromneft Marine Bunker to the vessels of the world’s largest cruise company Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd during the navigation season of 2016 at the port of Saint-Petersburg. Gazpromneft Marine Bunker says it has supplied some 19,000 t of heavy fuel oil and over 13,000 t of distillate fuel.
From the beginning of May till mid September, the port of Saint-Petersburg saw 49 bunkering operations of RCCL vessels.
According to the statement, the companies have been cooperating at the port of Saint-Petersburg from 2008. Some 300,000 t of fuel have been supplied in the framework of this long-term cooperation. In 2014 Royal Caribbean marked Gazpromneft Marine Bunker with a special ‘Supplier of the Year’ award.
“Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd is among our key and most reliable partners, – said Andrei Vasiliev, Director General of Gazpromneft Marine Bunker, – Efficiency of the cooperation lasting for many years is ensured by strict compliance with the agreement and standards at all the stages from the application for fuel supply till bunkering of the client’s vessel.”
Gazpromneft Marine Bunker, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, was established in 2007 to provide year-round supplies of marine fuel and oils for sea and river vessels. Gazpromneft Marine Bunker currently has eight regional offices and six subsidiary companies. Gazpromneft Marine Bunker operates in main sea ports of Russia (Nakhodka, Vladivostok, Vostochny, Posyet, Zarubino, Kozmino, Sakhalin, Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Kavkaz port, Taman, Sochi, St Petersburg, Ust-Luga, Primorsk, Kaliningrad, Baltiysk, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk) as well as river ports (St Petersburg, Azov, Yaroslavl, Sheksna, Nizhny Novgorod, Cherepovets, Kazan, Samara, Volgograd, Astrakhan, Olya port, Rostov-on-Don, Ust-Kut, Nizhnekamsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk) and international ports including Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia), and Constanta (Romania).