OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow Domodedovo Airport held meeting where fuel supply questions were discussed. The conference, organized by International Air Transport Association (IATA), gathered representatives of leading industry companies - State Scientific Research Institute of Civilian Aviation (GosNIIGA), Lukoil, Gazprom Neft, Rosneft, Shell and Aerofuels, and Domodedovo Fuel Services.

Experts considered issues on normative base and technical documents of aviation fuel supply in Russia. The specialists' attention was focused on the aviation fuel reception, storage and aircrafts fueling, correspondence of Russian documentation with international requirements due to standard introduction of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 9977.

“Such meetings are very significant for development of the industry, - Konstantin Chichagov, Country Ops manager of Shell and Aerofuels, commented. - Market players receive the opportunity to discuss accumulated questions, there is a number of them today. Now the important target is to keep up to date normative and technical documentation of aviation fuel supply and to adjust it in accordance with international standards. This is conditioned by the fact that Russian airlines operate foreign manufactured aircrafts, registered in other states, which is obliging operators to fulfill international requirements”.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport is an active player of aviation fuel supply market. The largest fuel supply complex of Russia and CIS is operating in the airport. In 2000 Domodedovo set conditions enabling airlines to choose independently aviation fuel supply methods: fuel reception from one of the fuel handlers, storage of self bought aviation fuel, fuel furnishes from oil companies, which in their turn have opportunity to store it in reservoirs of the airport and to use airport's fuel infrastructure for aircrafts fueling.

At the moment two fuel handlers operate in the airport: Domodedovo Fuel Services and Shell and Aerofuels. Also such oil companies as Gazpromneft-Aero, Lukoil-Aero, TNK-BP and RN-Aero take the opportunity to store and sell aviation fuel with service of filling up in wing. Thanks to such policy, percent of aviation fuel, stored by alternative handlers and airlines in Domodedovo, increases from year to year: in 2000-2001 it totaled 20-25% and in 2009-2012 it increased up to 84%.

For today, a number of questions is accumulated in the field of aviation fuel supply, requiring experts' elaboration and legislative solutions. The meeting, organized by IATA in Domodedovo Airport, became a forum for discussion of the possible directions for the industry development.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport - is the largest one of Russia, in 2012 the airport served 28,2 million people. It joins the category of the largest airports in Europe on the classification of the Airports Council International (ACI) and on results of 2012 became one of three European airports with the highest dynamic development. Since 2009 it is ranked as the best airport in Eastern Europe by Skytrax. Domodedovo is chosen for flights by member airlines of two largest global airline alliances - Star Alliance and oneworld.