On Friday Atlantas supertanker carrying two million barrels of Group Lotus reached the Danish Straits, where a portion of oil – about 700,000 barrels – has been reloaded to a smaller tanker. This operation is carried out in relation to the limited depth of the Danish Straits.
This is the first year the transport of raw material from Iran to Polish – he said vice-president of Lotos Group Marcin Jastrzebski. Unloading will last 36 hours.
Atlantas left loading terminal Kharg Island in Iran at the end of June.
due to its gigantic size and mass, the complex will also be the entrance to a supertanker port of Gdansk. The ship escorted by tugboats will dock facing the output speed of several centimeters per second. In the entrance to the port will be developed to assist system Laser rangefinders.
Atlantas belongs to a class of VLCC tankers, the largest units in the world to transport oil. It has 333 meters in length, 60 and a half meters wide and 66 meters high. It holds flows to Gdansk Naftoport converted more than 318 million gallons of oil. To reach the Europium supertanker had to sail around Africa.
Establishing cooperation between Lotos and the National Iranian Oil Company ( NIOC) was made possible by the abolition, at the beginning of this year, economic and financial sanctions imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, the United States and the European Union.
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