Business is booming for some Russian bunkerers — as Western sanctions have had the unintended effect of eliminating their competition.
Murmansk-based physical supplier Scadar, which fuels ships in its home port and as far abroad as Spitzbergen in Svalbard, is looking to a good year after boosting its small fleet with a secondhand tanker.
“I can say moneywise we will have a very good result this year, because we did not expect this situation, in particular in high-seas supplies,” chief executive Vladislav Boyarskiy said.
