Russia's main Black Sea oil port of Novorrossiisk reopened on Friday after severe weather closed the port for five days, local shipping agents said.
Agents at Gulf Agency Company (GAC) said the Sheskharis terminal reopened and that tankers were due to berth shortly. GAC said loadings had already started at the CPC offshore terminal at Novorrossiisk.
"All going well loadings should resume in the next couple of hours," said a GAC agent at the port.
Another said an Aframax, 80,000 tonne oil tanker, was due to start loading at berth 2, and weather conditions allowing, a Suezmax tanker, million-barrel oil tanker, at berth 1.
Loadings and operations were halted on January 18 because of gales and storms. The oil terminal, which normally handles 900,000 barrels per day of crude oil, was closed late on Sunday. Eleven tankers were queuing to load at the oil terminal, the sources said.
The nearby CPC Caspian pipeline terminal exports Kazakh CPC Blend.
Mediterranean shipping routes have been widely disrupted by poor weather this week and the Turkish Dardanelles straits, connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean, were closed on Thursday because of snowstorms and gales.
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