SIA Ventspils nafta termināls has ensured stable transshipment volumes level in the first quarter of 2009

SIA Ventspils nafta termināls has ensured stable transshipment volumes level in
the first quarter of 2009 

April 15, 2009, Riga


Joint stock company's Ventspils nafta subsidiary crude oil and petroleum
products transshipment company SIA Ventspils nafta termināls ensured stable
level of transshipment volumes of crude oil and petroleum products in the first
quarter of 2009, and these are analogue with the transshipment volumes reached
by the terminal in the first three months of 2008. 

In the period of January-March 2009, SIA Ventspils nafta termināls transshipped
3.8 million tons of crude oil and petroleum products. The largest proportion in
the structure of the cargos transshipped in this year's first month is formed
by more than 2.7 million tons of diesel fuel delivered by railway and via
petroleum products pipeline. 0.7 million tons of the total transshipment
volumes is formed by motor gasoline of various grades transported by railway
and other petroleum products, and 0.3 million tons - by crude oil and petroleum
product cargos delivered by sea. 

In 2009, SIA Ventspils nafta termināls is working in circumstances of intense
competition and global financial and economic crisis, at the same time
continuing implementation of the company's modernization projects and seeking
possibilities of developing new value added services, in order to strengthen
positions of SIA Ventspils nafta termināls as the largest crude oil and
petroleum products transshipment complex in the Baltic region. 

SIA Ventspils nafta termināls td is a subsidiary of AS Ventspils nafta. 51% of
it belongs to AS Ventspils nafta while 49% are owned by the Vitol company
Euromin Holdings (Cyprus) Limited. The terminal renders transit services:
reception of oil and diesel fuel via pipelines, as well as reception, storage
and transshipment of diesel fuel, motor gasoline and other petroleum products
delivered by railway and sea. 


SIA Ventspils nafta termināls is the largest of such companies in the region,
and its crude oil and petroleum products shore-tank farm reaches 1.2 million
cubic meters and has no analogues among similar companies in the nearest
countries. 




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