Fuel and food for the winter delivered to Yakutia – Business and Economy

YAKUTSK, October 23. /TASS/. The company’s press service reported that the Sakhaneftegazsbyt company from Yakutia had completed shipping after delivering more than 144,000 tons of petroleum products.

The company is a key participant in the Northern Supplies program and the only company in Yakutia with a large-capacity fleet. The state-owned company has 19 oil depots and annually supplies over 200,000 tons of petroleum products, of which 35,000 tons go to the Arctic regions.

“We delivered 144,299 tonnes of petroleum products by water, of which 22,035 tonnes were delivered to the Arctic regions via the North Sea route, including 122,264 tonnes from oil transshipment warehouses in Ust-Kut (Irkutsk Oblast). “Sachaneftegazsbyt has implemented the plan for the transport of deposit supplies (this is a fleet of life-supporting substances that are transported during navigation and remain in warehouses – TASS), i.e. 13,310 tons of petroleum products,” the press service reported.

The tanker, which closed the existing shipping, unloaded petroleum products at the oil depot in Yakutsk on October 20. “Despite negative factors that occur every year, such as the repeated increase in the key rate of the Central Bank, which increases the credit burden and causes higher purchase prices for petroleum products, (as well as) the shallowing of northern rivers, we have implemented the plan 100%,” said the company’s president. Viktor Lebedev.

Currently, the company is working on a plan to deliver petroleum products to most hard-to-reach places.

Food delivery

The Arctic Trade and Logistics Company (ATLC) also completed navigation. The company provides year-round deliveries of socially important food products to the Arctic districts of Yakutia and remote settlements.

“We have already finished delivering food products by water transport. <...> The Magdeburg ship returned from Arctic navigation after catching commercial fish from the Bulun region. Our remaining ships returned earlier and are now preparing for winter,” the company’s general director Saidam Stepanov told reporters.

According to him, 2,740 tons of food products were transported during the sailing, which is 100% of the plan. On the return journey, the ships brought over 800 tons of commercial fish from the Allaikhovsky and Bulunsky oblasts. “At the end of September, we started delivering groceries by air. These are five Arctic districts where there is no navigation – Anabarsky, Oleneksky, Eveno-Bytantaysky, Verkhoyansky and Momsky. We plan to deliver 416 tons there by air, he added. The annual supply plan for food products of social importance is 8,552.6 tons.