1.      Delivery of cargoes by water transport

The seaport Vitino is connected by water ways with important suppliers of petroleum.  The most favourable suppliers to establish a transport circuit are:

"Yaroslavnefteorgsintez" - Yaroslavl

"NORSI" - of  Nizhni Novgorod

" Nizhnekamsk Oil-Processing Factory " - Nizhnekamsk

"Permnefteorgsintez" - Perm

"Bashneftehimzavody" - Ufa

" Samarskiy Uzel NPZ" (Samara Facility of an Oil-Refinery) - Samara, Syzran’.

The delivery of petroleum from these factories can be effected by river/sea-going bulktankers such as ore-oil carriers. When vessels of such a class are used, the return loading with dry cargoes in port Kandalaksha is feasible.

Since 1997, in co-operation with the company "Infotek-Baltika" (St.-Petersburg), a program has been implemented to reduce the transport charges paid by the joint-stock company "Severstal’" for transportation of ore-oil concentrate by ore-oil carriers, with transhipment in the port of Kandalaksha.

2.      Delivery of cargoes by rail

The delivery of cargoes to the Port Vitino is also feasible by railway tanks both from the factories listed above and from some others. The special attention is paid to the transhipment of crude petroleum extracted in Timano-Pechorskaja oil and gas province (Uhta), as Vitino is the only port in the White Sea region which specializes in crude petroleum transshipment.

The seaport Vitino has prospects concerning creation of an oil refining complex. The prospects will come to light with implementation of projects on exploration of the Barents Sea shelf and known deposits of Timano-Pechorskaja oil and gas province.

Please, see the chart chart for more details on the circuit of cargo carriage and transportation.