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Russian bunker supplier Baltic Fuel Company (BFC) announced on Thursday that it has performed its last bunkering operation of the cruise ship season at the port of St. Petersburg.

Between May and October, the marine fuel supplier says it bunkered over 100 passenger liners at St Petersburg, with the last delivery made to the Aidamar. At the time of writing, the vessel is travelling along the coast of Gotland, according to vessel-tracking data.

Bunkering operations during this year's cruise season were performed by BFC's tankers Valery Zelenko, Seskar, Goghland, Shalanda 2030 and Oredejh. In total, the company says it supplied over 45,000 tonnes of diesel fuel and some 27,000 tonnes of fuel oil to passenger ships.

Earlier this year, BFC was granted a permit to develop an artificial plot of land at the Marine Oil Terminal 'Turukhtannye Islands' in St. Petersburg, by the country's Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot).

BFC's fuel terminal in St. Petersburg currently consists of a 7.3-hecare plot of land and two berths for the transshipment of oil products. In 2013, it handled some 500,000 tonnes, and the figure is currently around 1.5 million tonnes per year. The facility's annual throughput is expected to increase to 2.4 million tonnes by 2017, and to 4-5 million tonnes by 2020.

The terminal is designed to be used for the handling of oil products (M-100 and M-40 fuel oil, and diesel fuel), and for the supply of bunker fuel to tankers and bunkering vessels with capacity of up to 20,000 tonnes and a draft of 7 to 9 metres. Transfers of fuel to bunkering vessels account for 25 percent of the total volume, according to BFC.