Crude loadings at Russia's Novorossiysk port are about two to three days behind schedule as damage caused by a November 14 Ukrainian attack has limited the capacity of a key jetty at
Crude loadings at Russia's Novorossiysk port are about two to three days behind schedule as damage caused by a November 14 Ukrainian attack has limited the capacity of a key jetty at the terminal, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and a neighbouring Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal, through which one fifth of Russia's crude exports flow, suspended oil exports on Friday after the attack. Novorossiysk resumed them on Sunday.
The Ukrainian attack on the Sheskharis oil harbour at Novorossiysk damaged berths 1 and 1A, which handle large 140,000-deadweight-ton Suezmax tankers.
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"The loading of Suezmax class tankers has been transferred to berth 1A," one of the sources said. "Berth 1 is still idle".
That indicates that some of the damaged equipment at one of the Suezmax-class berths has yet to be fixed, which will make it hard for the port to immediately claw back the days of lost loadings and get back on schedule, the source said.
The Sheskharis oil harbour has two main jetties: one has berths for Suezmax and Aframax class tankers with a deadweight of 100,000 tons. Another jetty
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