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Article: Azerbaijan : SOCAR starts receiving large vessels at its own terminal on Black Sea.
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- October 3, 2009
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The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has completed the dredging work on its own Black Sea terminal in Kulevi, which will allow receiving tankers with dead weight of 104,000 ton, a source at the port said.
"Now a Greek tanker with dead weight of more than 100,000 tons AEGEAN FREEDOM is in the port for loading," the same source said.
Earlier the Kulevi port, located in the Georgian section of Black Sea, could board ships of not more than 50,000 tons.
Kulevi terminal's capacity to receive vessels of large capacity is directly linked to the trans-shipment of Kazakh oil from Tengiz field.
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