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20 Mar
2012 |
 In 2011 Aerofuels Group increased the volume of fuel in the segment of aviation fuel supply tanked at Russian and foreign airports by 9,2%. In absolute terms the volume of sales reached 650 thousand tons. The turnover in 2011 amounted to 18,9 billion rubles having increased by 43,29% in comparison with 2010.
2011 featured a range of momentous events in the life of Aerofuels Group:
• Opening of a refueling complex at Mendeleevo Airport in Yuzhno-Kurilsk, the island of Kunashir;
• Aerofuels Group performed the first in the post-Soviet history connection of a refueling complex to a main pipeline (the Airport of Ufa);
• A new construction stage of a refueling complex at the airport of Nizhny Novgorod was completed; the construction process is due to end in the 3rd quarter of 2012;
• A bulk plant in Tomsk was purchased. “Aerofuels” Group is continuing its work on creating a network of bulk plants to store light oil products;
• The airport network with the possibility of aviation fuel supply for the clients of Aerofuels was expanded. In the course of 2011 the number of refueling points reached 26. The certificate of compliance for TZK Kursk was obtained. Contracts with aviation fuel supply operators at the airports of Krasnoyarsk and Rostov-on-Don concerning fueling aircrafts of Aerofuels clients were signed;
• Points with possibilities of aviation fuel supply in Europe for business aviation reached 50 airports;
• Aerofuels International expanded its presence abroad. Now the company is ready to provide aviation fuel supply at more than 1000 airports worldwide;
• In the period of kerosene shortage in the Russian Federation in the 4th quarter of 2011 the company performed failure-free refueling;
• Clients of Aerofuels got 24-hours support system abroad as well as in Russia;
• The company improved its position in the Expert-400 rating by 17 points taking 374th position and in Forbes-200 by 10 points taking 172nd position;
• In the course of the year 1 billion 200 thousand rubles were invested in the infrastructure of aviation fuel supply systems of Russian airports.
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15 Mar
2012 |
 Aerofuels Group signed a contract with local refuellers for providing aviation fuel supply
Aerofuels Group started providing refueling services to air companies at the Airport of Rostov-on-Don. The airport has become the 27th in the Russian network of Aerofuels in which the clients of the company can get refueling services. Tanking is performed by JSC TZK-Avia – a refueling complex operating on the territory of the airport. The first refueling was performed for an aircraft of Art Jet Air Company.
A wide network of refueling points at Russian airports gives air companies and air-brokers, client of Aerofuels, additional possibilities of saving expenses on aviation fuel supply by choosing network services.
All in all, Aerofuels network includes 27 airports; at 17 of them the company has its own refueling complexes. |
20 Feb
2012 |
 February 18-19th 2012 saw the annual futsal tournament dedicated to the Civil Aviation Day. The number of participating teams representing the leading companies – air companies, service companies, Research Institutes – reached 24. The team of Aerofuels met stiff resistance on its way to the finals where it faced a worthy opponent, the three-time champion of the tournament, the team of Ural Airlines. The match ended in a draw with the score of 0:0. The result of the game was decided in the course of penalty shoot-outs. The outcome of the shoot-outs was decided by the goalkeeper of the Aerofuels team – general director of Aerofuels Group Vladimir Spiridonov – who saved the penalties. The final score was 0:0 and 3:1 in the penalty shoot-outs.
“We regard the results of the Aerofuels team’s participation in this tournament as a grand and long awaited success. We have been trying to become the champions for seven years, having participated in the tournament from the moment it was founded. We dispose of cups for the second and the third place. And now the name “Aerofuels” has been entered in the tournament’s history. This is an outstanding achievement of the team”, remarks Vladimir Spiridonov, general director of Aerofuels Group. |
17 Feb
2012 |
 A new vehicle has been added to the fleet of fueling trucks at the airport of Domodedovo. The truck has been purchased by the Refueling Company Shell and Aerofuels (Joint Venture of ShellAviation and Aerofuels Group) which for over 10 has been operating years as an alternative aviation fuel supplier at the largest Russian airport Domodedovo. The fueling truck TZA-60 of 2012 production year was manufactured by a Russian company NPO (Research and Production Association) Aviatekhnologiya (Aviation Technology) and complies not only with the Russian standards and requirements, but also fully conforms to the specifications of ShellAviation.
It is the first vehicle with such capacity in the fleet of fueling trucks belonging to Shell and Aerofuels. There are plans to use TZA-60 to refuel flights of air company Asiana and others, when it is necessary to refuel aircrafts at the apron where it is not equipped with a hydrant system. |
24 Jan
2012 |
 A new social and economic project becomes the 17th TZK in the Aerofuels network.
After the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visited the Kuril Islands in November 2010 and a course towards creating conditions for steady social and economic development of the Kuril Islands was declared, Aerofuels Group has made a decision to take upon itself the reconstruction of a refueling complex at Mendeleevo Airport of Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the island of Kunashir without the use of budget funds. On December, 28th Rosaviatsiya (the Federal Air Transport Agency) issued a full certificate of compliance for receipt, storage and refueling aircrafts with aviation fuel. January 2012 saw the start of regular refueling for Sakhalinskie Aviatrassy Airlines (SAT) aircrafts which perform flights to Sakhalin.
“At the end of 2011 Mendeleevo Airport was opened on the island of Kunashir. Within the framework of the federal purpose-oriented program “Social and economic development of the Kuril Islands” Rosaviatsiya has performed a grand-scale reconstruction of this vital facility which provides the inhabitants of the Kuril Islands with the transport accessibility of “the mainland”. Taking into account that the development of the Far East is one of the high priority directions of Russian social and economic policy as well as the fact that as of today we are actively represented in the Far East (our company has built and is operating refueling complexes in Kamchatka, Vladivostok and Blagoveshensk), Aerofuels Group has decided to make a contribution to the development of the region”, says Vladimir Spiridonov, general director of Aerofuels Group. “Of course, we understand that this refueling point constitutes 0.5% of the total amount of fuel supplied by our company. We consider Yuzhno-Kurilsk more as a social and economic project. We have everything required to ensure regular aviation fuel supply and organize refueling at the Kuril Islands. Transportation of kerosene to the Kurils as well as to Kamchatka will be performed by our tanker “Roshino”, adds Vladimir Spiridonov. |
12 Jan
2012 |
 At the end of December Aerofuels Group finished yet another construction stage of an alternative refueling complex at the airport of Nizhny Novgorod. Within the framework of the second stage an over 1400 m long railway branch connecting the Refueling Complex (TZK) with the Gorkovskaya Railway was completed, a positive evaluation of Rostekhnadzor on compliance of the constructed facility with the design documentation and the technical requirements was received, construction of the transformer substation KTPN-400 and a warehouse for nonbulk commodities was completed. At the present moment the first vertical steel tanks VST-1000 for oil storage and a rail loading rack for oil discharge are being erected. The building of the pump station and the administrative building designed to accommodate the petroleum quality control laboratory have been erected. The project being implemented in the Nizhny Novgorod Region by Aerofuels Group includes construction of a refueling complex with the total capacity amounting to 10900 m3 including eight tanks with the capacity of 1000 m3, a group of administrative buildings and facilities, an oil loading station, a separate railway access branch and a discharge jetty for 6 rail tank cars. The total amount of investments will come to 300 mln rubles. The payback period of the investment program is 5 years. The construction activities are due to finish in the IV quarter of 2012.
In the post-Soviet history it will be the second refueling complex of such capacity built at a Russian airport “from scratch”. Earlier a similar project was implemented only in Kamchatka at the airport Elizovo of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The complex also belongs to Aerofuels Group. |
25 Nov
2011 |
 Aerofuels, one of the largest aviation fuel suppliers, has managed to gain support of the Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin in an argument with the administration of the Novosibirsk Airport of Tolmachevo. The official demanded to ensure the work of aviation dispatchers in the air hub, and also initiated a checkup of the current aviation fuel supplier’s affiliation with the owners of Tolmachevo.
Aerofuels Group is one of the leading operators of alternative refueling complexes (TZK, the company owns 8 out of 12 such complexes) in Russia. The company is represented at Tolmachevo, but for three years it has not been able to start work.
As it is mentioned in the letter sent by the general director of Aerofuels Group Vladimir Spiridonov to Igor Sechin (a copy is at the disposal of RBC daily), in 2007 a new refueling complex was built jointly by Tolmachevo Airport and Aerofuels Group. “However, the commencement of work of the new alternative TZK has been hindered by the airport for three years by systematic refusals to perform training of fuel servicing truck drivers on the rules of operation on the apron and, consequently, refusals to issue ID cards for the personnel and documents for the equipment for operations in the civil sector of the airport”, is said in the letter. Mr Spiridonov separately mentions that in 2009-2010 the company fueled 760 flights in the military sector of the airport. |
22 Nov
2011 |
 It has been one year since Aerofuels International (one of the leading companies in Aerofuels Group) started its partnership relationships in the sphere of aviation fuel supply for business aviation at European airports with one of the leading oil companies ExxonMobil. In November the direct contract with ExxonMobil was prolonged. According to this contract the list of refueling points in which the companies had cooperated earlier was confirmed – this involves aviation fuel supply in twenty European cities of Germany, England, France, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. In the second year of partnership relationships it has become possible to expand the geography of refueling point twofold and more by enlarging the number of airports in these countries up to fifty.
This has become possible due to the long-standing partnership relationships of Aerofuels Group, which specializes in aviation fuel supply, and ExxonMobil, a colossus of the western oil market. By providing this service to business aviation, Aerofuels International shortens the chain from a customer to a refueller at an airport; this service has not only become cost-effective, it can also be provided in a more mobile way.
“The presence of a contract between Aerofuels International and ExxonMobil has enabled us to perform refueling for the special flights of the Russian delegation in the German city of Lübmin during the official opening ceremony of the gas pipeline “Nord Stream” with the participation of the President of Russia and Germany”, remarked Dmitry Korpachev, commercial director of Aerofuels International. |
17 Nov
2011 |
 In November Aerofuels Group started providing aviation fuel supply for the flights of Transaero at Bolshoye Savino Airport. Since November, 1st the number of air companies in Perm has increased by one. One of the largest Russian air carriers has started flights to this destination. Flight UN161/162 with the route Moscow-Perm-Moscow is performed five times a week on a Boeing-737. In the situation of the competitive market at Bolshoye Savino Airport, Transaero has chosen Aerofuels Group as its aviation fuel supplier for the aircrafts in Perm.
“We are glad that our competitive prices and high quality of service enable us to expand the geography of our working relationship with this long-standing partner. For over six years we have been entrusted with refueling Transaero aircrafts. During this time the volume of “into-plane” aviation fuel thanks to the efforts of our TZK has increased eightfold”, says Vladimir Spiridonov, general director of Aerofuels Group. “We strive to support our clients’ plans which concern expanding the number of directions within the Russian Federation, by providing special terms of service at our network of refueling complexes”, he adds.
Aerofuels Perm Refueling Complex has a full certificate of conformity for reception, storage and refueling aircrafts at this airport. The company is a member of the network which comprises 16 refueling complexes owned by Aerofuels Group. This Refueling Complex has been in operation for 11 years and is considered a successful example of an alternative complex on the territory of one of the largest Russian airports – The International Airport of Perm. |
07 Nov
2011 |
 The Laboratory of Aerofuels Ufa Refueling Complex has prolonged its certificate for performing control over the quality of aviation fuel and lubricants, which are fueled into aircrafts at the airport of Ufa. The certificate was issued by the Federal Air Transport Agency for the period of 3 years.
This certificate expands the competence of the laboratory, allowing it to perform quality control not only over the aviation kerosene of TS-1 (RT) type, but also of Jet A-1. Moreover, this certificate authorizes to perform control over hydraulic fluids AMG-10, FH-51. Air companies which are based at the airport of Ufa and which are performing maintenance works of their aircrafts have already had the opportunity to use the new services of the laboratory.
Within the framework of the conducted reconstruction of TZK Aerofuels Ufa in 2009-2011 the administration building was especially designed so that the first floor could be set aside for the laboratory. On the whole the reconstruction of the TZK required over 100 mln rubles. As a result the laboratory acquired new facilities and additional equipment. At present the laboratory complex of Aerofuels Group at the airport of Ufa conforms to the latest standards and requirements. |
31 Oct
2011 |
 Aerofuels International (one of the leading companies in Aerofuels Group) has expanded the geography of fuel servicing points at foreign airports for its clients among air companies. Now the list of fuel servicing points includes over one thousand airports in which Russian and foreign air companies can use the services of Aerofuels International.
“Our company has been actively engaged in developing foreign market for over 16 years. Every year we provide new possibilities for refueling at foreign airports for Russian regular carriers as well as Russian airfreight companies, and governmental flights”, says Gennady Pavlenko, general director of Aerofuels International.
This year the company has signed contracts for aviation fuel supply in the countries of South America; in particular, at the airports of the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and Cuba. The company has also reached an agreement on refueling its clients in Argentina, Chile and Costa Rica. In India this year Aerofuels International has added 90 locations to its geography, in China 30 new airports have been added. |
07 Oct
2011 |
 Tanker “Roshino”, which belongs to Aerofuels Group, has successfully finished it performance within the framework of the governmental program Severny Zavoz-2011 (deliveries of goods to the Northern Territories) on supplying the Far North with vital products. As a part of this program the tanker has been delivering light oil products to remote cities and villages in the Chukotka Autonomous District. The most remote point of destination was the city of Pevek, which is located within the Arctic Circle on the eastern coast of the cognominal strait connecting the Chaun Bay with the East Siberian Sea, 640 km from Anadyr. Pevek is considered the northernmost city of Russia.
Tanker “Roshino” was produced in Finland, has the full load weight of 5000 tons, and the deadweight (full load capacity) of 3000 tons. It has been operated by Aerofuels Group since 2009. The main task of “Roshino” is a continuous supply of Aerofuels Kamchatka refueling complex at the airport of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with aviation kerosene. |
29 Sep
2011 |
 Aerofuels Group has once again been included in the “200 largest private companies” list published by Forbes. This year the company has risen by 10 points and took the 172nd place in the rating.
The rating has been published for 7 years, and “during all these years the closed nature has not prevented its participants from outperforming the country’s economy in their development rate. There is no need to make decisions with consideration of shareholders and demonstrate nice-looking figures in reports - this makes nonpublic companies more stable during crisis”, writes Forbes.
An increase of 9% in tanked fuel and of 29% in revenues in 2010, the expansion of the geographic presence of Aerofuels Group in Russia and abroad – all these factors have allowed the company to demonstrate a rise in its rating. |
26 Sep
2011 |
 In September 2011 LLC TZK Aerofuels (one of the leading companies in Aerofuels Group) became the owner of one of the largest petroleum-storage depots in the Tomsk Region located near the airport of Tomsk.
The petroleum-storage depot includes a tank farm with the capacity of 10000 m3. Earlier this property belonged to JSC TTZK.
In Tomsk TZK Aerofuels provides a whole complex of services connected with receiving, storage and distribution of aviation kerosene, diesel fuel and various types of petrol.
This is not the first experience of Aerofuels in providing such services. Apart from Tomsk, light oil products, namely diesel fuel and various kinds of petrol, are stored in Ulyanovsk and Kursk, and starting from the third quarter of 2012 also in Nizhny Novgorod. |
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