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Cyprus-based bunker supplier Bunker Holdings Ltd. - part of the Transbunker Group - has restarted its bunker supply operation in Far East Russia.

Speaking to Bunker Index, senior bunker trader Yuriy Kharchenko confirmed that the company had begun to carry out bunker deliveries in the ports of Nakhodka, Kozmino, Vostochny and Vladivostok in September, after having been out of the market for approximately one year.

Bunker Holdings has been using the 1987-built MV Lidoga for bunker deliveries in Far East Russian ports. The vessel has a fuel oil capacity of 1,700 metric tonnes and a marine distillate capacity of 400 metric tonnes. The pumping rate of the double-hulled barge is 400 cubic metres per hour.

In addition to Far East Russia, Bunker Holdings is a physical supplier in a number of Black Sea ports including Novorossiysk, Odessa, Port Kavkaz and Kerch Strait. The company also supplies in the Danube ports of Kerch and Ust-Dunaysk.

Transbunker Group also operates the following oil terminals in addition to its bunker supply activities:

* Vanino Oil Terminal (Russia, Far East) – Total storage capacity 220 000 cubic metres and mini crude oil processing unit with annual capacity of 500 000 tonnes.

* Kholmsk Oil Terminal (Russia, Far East - Sakhalin) – Total storage capacity 8,000 cubic metres.

* Nakhodka Oil Terminal (Russia, Far East) – Total storage capacity 18,300 cubic metres.

* Yuzhnyy Oil Terminal (Ukraine, Black Sea) –Total storage capacity 80,000 cubic metres.

* St. Petersburg Oil Terminal (Russia, Baltic Sea).

In total, Transbunker Group operates a fleet of 14 seagoing tankers and barges, which carry out bunkering and oil trading activities.