Tanker “Primorye” the first in this season delivered crude oil from Vitiaz Terminal to Japanese consumers. Alexei Matskevich, Deputy Director of PRISCO (Singapore), subsidiary of the Primorsk Shipping Corporation said that because of earlier beginning of oil extraction season at Sakhalin Island shelf this navigation will be more successful for the Company than in 2003. Up to the middle of August “Primorye” will transport oil extracted at island shelf to Japan, Chiba, Kawasaki, Wakayama, Sakai, Kiire. The tanker is planned to make 7 – 9 voyages in the period from June till December. Last year m/t “Primorye” delivered totally 631,000 tons of Sakhalin oil to different ports of Korea, Japan and China. From January till April of this year during work in Baltica PRISCO Aframax made 8 voyages from Primorsk, transported cargo to European ports Rotterdam and Brofyorden. Totally there were transported 804,349 thousand tons of oil at Baltic route. Tanker “Azija” of 40,000 tons dwt. is going on to work at De-Kastri direction. Last year it successfully fulfilled order for transportation of oil to the ports of North-East Asia so it was chartered again by Daxin Petroleum. In 2003 tanker “Azija” totally delivered from De-Kastri to ports Yosu (Korea) and Zhingzhou (China) 452,33 thousand tons of oil. This season PRISCO tanker of 40,000 tons dwt. has to transport oil in volume of the last year to Korean and Chinese ports.
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