Baltic Fuel Company obtains four river tugs

Baltic Fuel Company (BFC, St. Petersburg, Russia) has made a bargain on purchase of four river tugs of the same type.Tugs of  2400 h.p. capacity each are intended

for pushing vessels including oil tankers used for transportation of over 60 C oil products flash point. The price of the same class vessel in the international market amounts to about 200 thousand euros.
The first serial tug, one-deck twin-screw push boat EvroStar-2, has sailed to the Russian sea port of Rostov-on-Don and is under registration procedure nowadays. Tugs will be transported from the ports of Rostov-on-Don and Azov through the Russian Federation inland waterways to the port of St. Petersburg till the end of this August.
In St. Petersburg, the tugs will be equipped with drawbars, purchased by BFC from Taisei Engineering Japanese Corporation, for making barge-tug connection apparatus.

General Director of BFC Stanislav Korneev:
- This year our company has started to develop a new business – transportation of oil products in Russian inland waterways. This February we placed the order at the Baltiysky plant (St. Petersburg, Russia) for construction of four oil barges of 24000 c.m. total capacity. During the construction, we decided to modernize the said barges in strict complying with the requirements of such organizations as BP-Shipping. Nowadays Marine Engineering Bureau (St. Petersburg, Russia) is finishing the modernization project.
According to Stanislav Korneev, barge-tug connection apparatus will start operating during 2012 navigation in the Russian Federation inland waterways. Oil products will be delivered from the refineries of the largest Russian oil companies to the Big Port of St. Petersburg.
Source: Baltic Fuel Company