Baku, Azerbaijan, July 13
By Maksim Tsurkov – Trend:
The Black Sea terminal of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR in Kulevi, Georgia, is upgrading and modernizing the automatically controlled railway system, the terminal management told Trend.
This will help ensure the safety and increase the throughput of railway routes of the terminal and the Kulevi railway station, said a source in the terminal management.
The terminal’s internal and external railway routes are 12-km long, where switching between different routes is carried out by 27 railroad switches, according to the source.
“In 2016, the terminal installed the centralized automatically controlled system for the main switching points. Recently, the terminal has completed the installation of the centralized automatically controlled system for the remaining switching points, which will contribute to the control of the switching points from the central railway control room, enhance safety of railway traffic and improve the throughput of the railway tracks and the Kulevi station.”
The terminal in Georgia’s Kulevi was commissioned in May 2008 and oil products’ transhipment started in June of the same year. The total capacity of the terminal is 10 million tons of oil cargo per year, including three million tons of oil, three million tons of diesel fuel and four million tons of fuel oil.
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