Riyadh-based National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) has announced transporting the first chemical shipment from Aramco Trading Company (ATC), a Saudi Aramco subsidiary that trades refined, liquid chemical and polymer products.

The transportation was carried out via ‘NCC Amal’, a 45,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT) Bahri chemical tanker which left the kingdom’s Rabigh port for China.

The shipment, which contains 25,000 tonnes of paraxylene (PX) and 20,000 tonnes of monoethylene glycol (MEG), marks the completion of Phase II of the PetroRabigh Company (PRC) chemical project.

NCC Amal will transport MEG in addition to the first paraxylene (PX) cargo, which will be sold during its turnaround to the world’s largest PX consumers through Saudi Aramco-owned trading firm S-Oil.

S-Oil has facilities that produce lube base oil and petrochemical products, in addition to crude oil refining facilities with a capacity of 669,000 barrels a day at the Onsan Industrial Complex in Ulsan, South Korea.