Export of Russian oil cargoes up 11% to 165 mln t in HI’13 – expert
According to the estimates of Marine Bureau Oil Terminals LLC, liquid bulk terminals of Russian seaports handled 165 mln t in the first half of 2013, while transshipment of dry bulk cargo has slightly declined, IAA PortNews learnt from Gannady Kuzmin, Director General of Marine Bureau OT.
The expert says the highest increase was registered in the Arctic Basin owing to the start of export crude transshipment from the new fields via Varandey terminal (Nenets autonomous region). In the accounting period throughput of Varandey port surged by 150% to 2.5 mln t. Transshipment of oil cargo via the storage tanker Belokamenka (port Murmansk) boosted almost 20-fold, year-on-year, to 3.6 mln t. Oil cargo transshipment via port Arkhangelsk gained 43%, via port Vitino – by 20%.
Other basins saw a less visible growth. In the Baltic Basin, crude and oil product shipment climbed by 8%, year-on-year. Transshipment of oil cargo via port Primorsk lost 12% mainly due to higher volumes pumped by BPS-2 towards Ust-Luga port (up 3.4 times) and increased transshipment of oil product via port Vysotsk (+13%).
Oil cargo throughput of Azov-Black Sea port was 5% up. The decline of oil shipments registered at Sheskharis terminal (port Novorossiysk) (by 2%) and in Tuapse (by 18%) was overcompensated by CPC-R terminal at port Novorossiysk (by 5%) and the launch of oil terminal at port Taman.
In the Far East Basin, oil cargo transshipment increased by 10%. In the first-half period oil cargo traffic fell in port De-Castri (by 9%) and port Prigirodnoye (by 3.5%) which was overcompensated by a 40-pct surge of Kozmino throughput (port Vostochny).
