Busy for Norilsk Nickel’s fleet
In course of the year, Norilsk Nickel’s own fleet transported nearly 1 million tons of goods, including 449.000 tons of metal products and 156.000 tons of nickel matte.
Norilsk Nickel has over the last years developed its own fleet of vessels capable of handling the lion’s share of the major shipping operations from Norilsk and Dudinka to Murmansk and abroad.
The company’s ice-class cargo vessels “Norilski Nikel”, “Monchegorsk”, “Zapolyarny”, “Talnakh” and “Nadezhda” in 2009 conducted 57 voyages to Murmansk, Arkhangelsk and Rotterdam, a press release from the company reads.
In December the company opened a logistics office in Rotterdam to serve the company’s cargo transport between Europe and the Arctic port of Dudinka. The direct route from Dudinka to Rotterdam was opened in 2009, as reported by BarentsObserver.
The company is now preparing a new contract on building of an ice-class tanker, the press release reads. The tanker is planned to be used both for the company’s own needs, and for transport of gas condensate to Europe from the Petlyatkin gas condensate filed on the Taymyr Peninsula.
