Terminal's Characteristics
Klaipeda City settlend on the coast of the Baltic sea has already celebrated its 750 birthday. Today the northernmost ice-free port of Klaipeda is a large Lithuanian transport junction connecting sea routes, motorways and railways between the East and West. Here start the shortest land routes to the most important industrial regions of East-European contries (Russia, Belarus and Ukraine).
Facilities of the Terminal complex located on a 37,4 ha area allow handling 9 m tons of export/import oil products and crude oil per year.
The Terminal uses „KANON”, „BORNEMANN”, „INGERSOLL DRESSER”, „ROTORK”, „ENRAF”, „ROSSMARK”, „AEG” etc. equipment; „AJAX-HEKATRON” automatic fire detection and extinguishing system, „HONEYWELL” emergency shutdown system and „BAILEY” computerised monitoring system, air, soil and water pollution prevention technologies satisfying the European standards have been introduced.
| Oil Terminal type |
Stevedoring (railways & water) |
| Railway station |
Code 108107 |
| Operation |
Product |
Brand |
| Export, import |
Fuel oil |
M-40, M-100 |
| |
Technological fuel |
E-4 |
| |
Marine fuel oil |
F-5 |
| |
Diesel fuel |
various sorts |
| |
Vacuum gas oil |
VGO |
| |
Gasoline |
various sorts |
| |
Jet fuel |
A-1 |
| |
Other oil products |
|
| |
Crude oil |
|
| Product |
Quantity (tons per year) |
| Crude oil, light and heavy oil products |
9 000 000 |
Pauostis railway station modernised in accordance with the needs of the oil Terminal guarantees safe cargo flow and timely delivery of tank-cars with crude oil and oil products to the trestles of the Terminal. The station can accept 500 tank-cars at a time.
Two four-track railway trestles provide a possibility to discharge or load 124 tank-cars simultaneously:
| Light oil products |
60 tank-cars |
(two tracks for 30 railway cars each) |
| Heavy oil products |
64 tank-cars |
(two tracks for 32 railway cars each) |
| Quantity (pcs.) |
Volume (cub. m.) |
Total volume (cub. m.) |
| Total: 30 |
|
404 500 |
| 12 |
20 000 |
240 000 |
| 4 |
10 000 |
40 000 |
| 12 |
5 000 |
60 000 |
| 2 |
32 250 |
64 500 |
| Jettie No. |
Depth, m. |
Length, m. |
| 1 |
14 |
270 |
| 2 |
14 |
270 |
| Tanker batch |
up to 100 000 t |
| Harbour entrance depth |
14,5 m. |
| Product |
Capacity (cub.m/hour) |
| Light oil products |
up to 2000 |
| Heavy oil products |
up to 4000 |
| Crude oil |
up to 3800 |
Terminal can handle four tank trucks simultaneously. Therefore the Terminal has technical possibilities to accept gasoline and diesel oil delivered by sea intended for the Lithuanian market.
| Number of loading points: |
4 |
The unique biological treatment technology employed for waste water treatment guarantees the quality of water discharged into open water basins satisfying the normative requirements of the European Union.
| General capacity of Waste Water Treatment Facilities |
160 m³/h |
| Waste water collected and treated annually |
up to 400 000m³ |
