Bunker Suppliers Keep Going in Russian Deep Freeze
of St Petersburg are being hit as hard everybody else. Holding. The very cold weather began in late December when night-time temperatures went as low as minus 33 degrees C. with thick ice. with sheet ice 19 in. to 47 in. thick. drifting ice 7 in. to 17 in.thick. St. icebreakers. Within the port area icing is much more severe than normal with areas of accumulated broken ice over .5 in. thick in places. St Petersburg. out a bunker tanker to a ship in the port. conditions for some time to come. Before the really cold weather started bunker volumes were holding up well. total volume of bunkers supplied at St Petersburg was about 40,000 tonnes. but up slightly on December 2002. much lower.
Russian Port Bunker Volumes Higher than Expected
The major Russian port of St. fully expecting deliveries to slump. bunker tanker crews. 12,000 tonnes. we fully expected our sales to be hit hard. tugs which add about an extra US$4 per tonne to prices.. significantly. extensive and severe icing in the Baltic. compared to 638 in the same month last year.
