Baku, Azerbaijan, June 6
By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend:
From the beginning of operations on May 16, 2008 until today, the Black Sea oil terminal of the Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR in Georgia's Kulevi port has transshipped 23 million tons of crude oil and oil products, SOCAR told Trend June 6.
The company stated that currently there are four linear overpasses at the terminal for unloading operations, which allow simultaneous servicing of 168 railway tanks.
"Since the beginning of the work, the terminal has transshipped more than 23 million tons of crude oil and oil products and will continue to increase the volume of transshipment," the company stated.
The terminal is used for shipment of crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel, gas oil, methanol, aviation fuel, propylene, liquid pyrolysis resin, naphtha, isopropyl alcohol, diesel fuel with ultra-low sulfur content, industrial oil, and condensate.
The terminal in the Kulevi port was put into operation in May 2008, and the transshipment of oil products was launched in June. The total capacity of the terminal is 10 million tons of liquid bulk oil cargo per year, including three million tons of oil, three million tons of diesel fuel, and four million tons of fuel oil. The total capacity of the tank farm of the terminal is 402,000 cubic meters.
The terminal shipped 139 tankers in 2017.
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