Major tanker group of companies "Sovcomflot"

Major tanker group of companies "Sovcomflot" "SCF Yenisei" August 62013 came from Murmansk in the Arctic voyage on the Northern Sea Route, the press service of the SCF. Class ship Ice-1A (Arc4) proceed along the Northern Sea Route to the port of discharge Chiba (Japan) with a load of light oil. Going Murmansk - Chiba by distance will be 5767 nautical miles. The crew of the tanker consists of 24 sailors who have extensive experience sailing in ice conditions. The tanker is scheduled to arrive in the port of discharge Chiba 29-31 August 2013. This is the fifth-through flight "Sovcomflot" through the Arctic. Going tanker "SCF Yenisei" extends the time frame of high-latitude flights because it starts at 3 weeks before the previous flights. Swimming takes place in the average for this time of the ice conditions, the report says. The vessel will proceed under the wiring from an icebreaker "Atomflot." Conducted during 2011-2012 the joint work of specialists of JSC "Sovcomflot" and the state of the hydrographic companies provide high-latitude flights navigation of large vessels, allowed to make available to the captains of ships of this class electronic navigation maps, plates are displayed on the shooting of the sea floor. This has increased the safety of navigation of such transitions. On board the ship are the navigation system "GLONASS" and GPS. "SCF Yenisei" chartered by the Swiss company Glencore International AG, which OAO "Sovcomflot" is developing a long-term mutually beneficial cooperation in a joint venture for the ownership and management of product tankers. Abbreviation for Global Energy Commodities and Resources in the Russian translation means: "Global energy commodities and resources." Noteworthy is the history of this company. The company was founded in April 1974 an American businessman Marc Rich and his partner Pincus Green, Jr., and was originally built on the principles of secrecy and high-risk aggressive policy by expanding its operations throughout the world. Company conducted trade in Iranian oil to bypass the U.S. embargo, nickel and gold bought in Cuba trades with embattled Libya and South Africa. In 1983 the federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani (a future mayor of New York City) sanctioned the arrest of the company's founders. The prosecution has 65 points, including the payment of taxes in the amount of 48 million U.S. dollars. Marc Rich ran the company until 1993 and then from 1993 -1994 top-managers of the company was bought from Rich's controlling stake in the company, and the company was renamed «Glencore International». Now it is a Swiss trading company, which is one of the world's largest suppliers of raw materials and rare earth materials. In 2006 the company was ranked 6th among European companies, and its turnover in 2008 amounted to $ 152.2 billion rubles.

Eugene Zhitnikova, RIA «VladNews»