BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb.11
By Tamilla Mammadova – Trend:
The Georgian port of Kulevi, which is mainly focused on the transshipment of liquid cargo, has handled almost the same volume over the past five years - 1.6-17 million tons, the Georgian Transport Corridor Research Center said, Trend reports via Georgian media.
This figure is significantly lower than the indicators of 2012-2015 when the port's throughput was 2.1-2.5 million tons.
The transshipment capacity of oil in the Kulevi ports is 10 million tons per year. The port is not loaded even by 20 percent.
The oil terminal of the Azerbaijani company SOCAR is located in the port of Kulevi, which has been investing in the Georgian economy since 2006, creating thousands of new jobs. Currently, the Kulevi oil terminal, gas distribution network, and gas stations operate in Georgia.
In the first half of 2020, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan SOCAR handled 890,000 tons of oil products at the Black Sea Oil Terminal.
From the start of operations in May 2008 until July 1, 2020, more than four million tons of crude oil and more than 22.8 million tons of oil products have been transported through the port of Kulevi.
The terminal is used to ship crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel, gas oil, methanol, jet fuel, propylene, liquid pyrolysis resin, naphtha, isopropyl alcohol, ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel, industrial oil, condensate.
SOCAR's terminal in the Georgian port of Kulevi was put into operation in May 2008, and the transshipment of oil products began in June of the same year.
The total capacity of the terminal is 10 million tons of 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 terminal's tank farm is 402,000 cubic meters.
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