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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.

South African Marine Fuels has begun off-shore and in-port bunker operations in Port Elizabeth.

The 8,200 DWT MT African Sprinter tanker, which will be used for continued bunker operations off Namibia in West Africa, has previously been on bareboat charter by the company for a three-year period.

From the beginning of September, Petromoc Bunkering will commence a new bunker supply operation in Nacala Port and offshore, the company tells Bunkerspot.

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is reported to have begun the main construction phase of the project at the port, which is located at the Gulf of Suez.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has unveiled plans to set up a subsidiary to provide vessel refuelling services.