MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Crude oil exports and transit
from Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiisk were suspended on
Feb. 24 due to a storm and will fail to fulfil the February
loading plan in full amid weather related delays, market and
shipping sources said on Monday.
As of February 27, the port has still to load four Suezmax
vessels of 140,000 tonnes each and two Aframaxes of some 80,000
tonnes each from loading plan for this month. Most of these
volumes will be carried forward to March, the sources added.
Another two Aframaxes planned for loading from Novorossiisk
late in February were excluded from the plan, as bad weather
hampers discharge of crude oil from vessels in Bulgaria, the
sources said.
Urals, KEBCO and Siberian Light loadings from Novorossiisk
in February were set at 2.38 million tonnes, above 2.18 million
tonnes in the January plan.
Novorossisisk has also loaded in February some 0.28 million
tonnes of crude oil from January loading plan, as two Suezmax
vessels from the January schedule were carried forward to
February.
(Reporting by Reuters. Editing by Jane Merriman)
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