VolgoTrans oil product traffic on inland waterways soars 40 percent
Samara-based Russian carrier VolgoTrans in this year navigation season increased the volume of petroleum product traffic on Russia’s inland waterways by about 40% compared with the same period a year ago, to 810,000 tons, VolgoTrans Deputy CEO Alexei Palgov said.
The commodity was transported primarily from Volgograd to the offshore transshipment location of the Port Kavkaz in the Black Sea.
The company deployed 20 tankers of mixed ‘river-sea’ and river class. Total volume of cargo carried during the season, including seaborne oil product shipping between the EU ports has reached nearly 1.1 million tons, roughly about the same figure reported for 2011.
Shipping company VolgoTrans was founded in September 2009. The company operates its own and chartered Russian-flagged ships: tankers for year-round sailing of capacity of up to 5,400 tons, tankers for seasonal sailing of capacity ranging from 2,500-4,800 tons, the Nefterudovoz-class vessels that can transport both liquid and dry bulk cargo of capacity of 3,100 tons.
