Since 2002 OU KEMTRANS GRUPP has been involved in successful trade in liquid petroleum bitumen from the former USSR refineries delivering it to Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Romania. We own 190 specially equipped railway tanks for bitumen transportation with each tank being capable of transporting up to 9500 tons of bitumen per trip.
Bitumen can be transportet by sea. It can be heated (up to 195Â°C) and loaded into tankers (1500-6000 tonns). Loading can be performed at the Baltic sea ports of Klaipeda or Liepaja, and at the Black sea port of Kerch.
Speed of loading is 1000-1500 tons per day.
Bitumen is pre-heated up right in the tanks which are all equipped with special electric heating system.
Loading is carried out directly from tanks, so there is no need for any transient container to be used.