Vitol to start shipping Kazakh VGO to Batumi

摘要

Trading firm Vitol will start shipping Kazakh vacuum gasoil (VGO) to the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi in December. It is suspending supplies of VGO from Kazakhstan to the Russian port of Taman after Russian Railways (RZD) introduced restrictions on Kazakh dirty product deliveries to Vyshesteblievskaya station, which serves Oteko’s Tamanneftegaz terminal, on 30 November-9 December. RZD is believed to want to avoid railcar congestion in and around Vyshesteblievskaya station because of the delays to tanker loadings at the port of Taman caused by storms.