Shipping and Transportation
RAILING
ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY has played an increasingly important role in the movement of crude oil. ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY infrastructure is vital to moving crude oil produced in new fields to markets. Our loading facilities for crude oil have been or are being constructed in virtually every new production area of Azerbaijan. In ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY , Petroleum is transported via our leading private railroad transportation operator. We operate more than 18 000 units of rolling stock. The car fleet is highly diversified and has 12 types of units, including universal and specialized carriages. On these qualifications, ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY provides transportation services for a wide range of industrial cargoes and we offer the following services:
Logistics and distribution are at the core of the business; shipping raw materials to where they can be refined or processed and then used, or transported to areas where there is a deficit.
ROAD FREIGHT
ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY road freight service is ready to deliver products on time at any place at any time. A trial will convince you.
ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY fleet comprises TGA units with 440 and 480 horsepower units. We are operating various brands of a new fleet of 15 tri-axle drop-sided trailers with a capacity ranging from 25 tonnes and above per load. Our trailers allow us to transport a diverse range of cargo, from bulk grains, bulk chemicals, crude, bagged cargo, large equipment containers, etc
INLAND NAVIGATION
ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY has various Barges for Inland shipments which are durable and trusted facilities to deliver your products 100% safely to their destination. Due to the fact that the transport is usually carried out in large numbers, the transportation of crude oil and through our company to our clients petroleum products one of the following ways:
Transportation by rail.
Sea transport by tanker.
Transportation via pipelines.
Transportation by road.
For oil, this means shipping crude in large tankers to refineries, and then shipping the refined product to where it is consumed. ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY both owns and charters ships to deliver crude oil and oil products, as well as coal, bitumen, chemicals and pressurised gas. At any one time we have 250 ships at sea and in 2013 chartered 100,000 ship journeys.
Crude oil transportation is the backbone of our business at ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY. It’s how we started the company many years ago and served as the basis of our company for the decade. ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY dominates domestic crude oil transportation market share servicing for ABSHERON OPERATING COMPANY and other major domestic Oil Companies. As a national strategic resources, we transport crude oil based on long-term contract with safety in mind service. Continuous safe operations build our company as a “reliable transportation partner”. We are in good relationship with worldwide oil majors, Asian oil majors and trading companies including Japanese and Chinese companies. And we will try to expand our customers and transportation volume.