The Ust-Luga Port Has Loaded Its 1,000th Oil Tanker since Commissioning

The tanker Delta Victory (Greece) was loaded with 100,000 tonnes of oil. With this volume, a total of 100,133,596 tonnes of crude has been loaded at the Ust-Luga terminal since its commissioning.

Loading of the 100-millionth tonne of oil at the terminal was carried out a day earlier, on 5 June 2016. The oil was loaded onto the tanker Pelagos (Greece).

The Ust-Luga Port oil terminal is designed for loading export shipments of crude received via the oil trunk pipeline of the Baltic Pipeline System-2 (BPS-2). The complex was commissioned in 2011.

The Ust-Luga oil depot is the end point of the BPS-2 oil pipeline and is intended for receiving and storing shiploads of crude oil delivered via pipelines. The oil depot was commissioned in 2011.