Africa News

Director General of the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Kwame Owusu, has urged Ghanaian maritime stakeholders to work together to tackle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships.

Local sources in Mauritius have told Bunkerspot that Oceanis Bunkering’s new bunkering vessel, the 9,000 mt capacity Anuket Opal, is now expected to be operational in Port Louis from around 10 February.

Saudi Arabia has been in talks regarding a $10 billion investment programme in South Africa, which could include building a new refinery.

‘We are a niche, well-financed company wanting to make a move into the commercial fuels market,’ Stonewin’s Morten Hoxer tells Bunkerspot.

The Danish company expects a 200,000 metric tonnes (mt) volume increase from its new supply location, Djibouti.

The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has set out the agency’s plans to ensure that the 2020 sulphur regulation is effectively enforced.

Pirates in a speed boat chased and fired upon a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker carrying out bunkering operations west of Pointe Noire, Republic of the Congo.

‘We have two bunker barges currently operating and have three approved in total,’ says Chrystel Bassett-Simmonds, co-founder of South Africa Marine Fuels (SAMF). ‘Depending on demand, we can bring the other one in as and when required.’

FFS Marine, a division of FFS Refiners, a South African entity majority-owned by Calulo Investments, has launched a new service supplying intermediate fuels and distillates ex-pipe and ex-truck in Cape Town.

Armed pirates boarded the Massoel Shipping-owned Glarus on 22 September while the vessel was underway some 50 nautical miles off Bonny Island, Nigeria.