State-owned and private oil majors, petroleum traders, banks, enterprises dealing with oil transport, transshipment or storage services, continue to be the Company's main trading partners.

JSC Surgutneftegaz is Nafta Moskva's major strategic partner in Russia which supplied the world market with about 11,8 mln tons of crude oil in 2000. Among the companies which have given huge quantities of crude oil to be exported through JSC Nafta Moskva are JSC Tatneft, JSC Saratovneftegas, JSC Nafta-Ulianovsk, Petrosakh, Polar Lights and Tomsk Petroleum und Gas.

The Company's agency agreements are contracts of commission with Russian suppliers provide for raising funds to prepay deliveries and early transfers of proceeds from the goods supplied to pay excise taxes and transportation charges. JSC Nafta Moskva provides documents required to send route telegrams, insures presentation of customs declarations, effects payment of dues at ports of loading, elaborates and signs agreements with transport, expedition and broker's agents and performs other operations to effect timely oil export shipments. Our customers are offered service benefits at ports of transshipment, insurance bonuses and demurrage concessions.