Africa News

TFG Marine has announced that its Technical Team joined personnel from the mass flow meter (MFM) manufacturer Endress+Hauser Group in Port Louis, Mauritius last week to carry out preparatory inspection works on the MT Hakkansan, the first of the TFG Marine-Group Roland Maurel joint-venture’s bunkering vessels in the region to be fitted with a fully calibrated and ISO22192 compliant MFM.

Fuel supplier Stonewin has informed Bunkerspot that the 2013-built Verde tanker is now supporting its operations in Port Louis.

The ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has raised concerns on the continued acts of maritime piracy and armed robbery against ships off the coast of Somalia, where 33 incidents were reported in the first quarter of this year. 

The new 650,000 barrels a day (b/d) Dangote refinery reportedly started supplying petroleum products to the local Nigerian market last week.

Dangote is reportedly planning to set up an oil trading arm to help oversee crude and products supply for the company’s new 650,000 barrels a day (b/d) refinery in Nigeria.

In a notice sent to Bunkerspot today (6 March), Durand Naidoo, the founder-CEO of Linsen Nambi, has argued that: ‘South Africa could become a world class bunkering destination and restore its reputation within the global bunker industry – but the role players, such as the Port Authority and the Safety Authority and Revenue Service (SARS), all need to abide by their lawful mandates.’

The World Energy Council, the international organisation promoting the sustainable supply and use of energy, has announced the addition of a new South African chapter as its latest Member Committee.

ECOnnect Energy has today (14 February) informed Bunkerspot that it has become a partner in Project Green, an initiative led by Alternative Petroleum & Power Limited (APPL) which is looking to establish itself as a leading supplier of clean e-fuels, including e-methanol and green ammonia, in Africa.

Damen Shipyards Group has signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) which will see the company continue its work on ‘localisation and industrial participation to the benefit of the South African shipbuilding industry and economy’.

As the Red Sea situation and transit limitations in the Panama Canal are currently making the Cape Sea route increasingly attractive to more shipowners, Commander Tsietsi Mokhele, the President/Executive Director of the Africa Oceans Council (AOC), has called on the South African government to work with the country’s maritime industry to ‘maximise the effectiveness and success of the Algoa Bay maritime hub complex as a viable alternative to the Suez Route’.