Russian BFC Makes First Bunkering for Carnival Cruise Lines

St. Petersburg-based Baltic Fuel Company LLC (BFC) has delivered the first bunker fuel shipment under a contract with cruise operator Carnival Cruise Lines.

The BFC’s bunkering tanker Kapitan Shiryaev supplied today, May 4, 2012, 600 tons of heavy fuel oil and 80 tons of diesel fuel to the cruise ship AIDAsol.

Under the contract terms BFC will deliver 160 bunker fuel shipments at the passenger port of St. Petersburg (Marine Fasade Terminal) in the summer season – from May to September 2012. Overall, the Company was contracted to deliver 160,000 tons of bunker fuel, including 130,000 tons of heavy fuel oil.

BFC will make bunkering to the CCL’s passenger ships using its own modern fleet that meets the requirements of Annex VI, MARPOL Convention. In particular, to execute the contract the Company will deploy the 5,000 dwt tanker Kapitan Ponikarovsky and the 2,500 dwt tanker Captain Shiryaev.

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Source: BalticFuel, May 4, 2012