FFS BUNKERS, the Durban bunker specialist which operates the bunker supply tanker Dolphin Coast and two bunker barges, Livingstone and Stanley at Richards Bay and Durban, is to position a newly acquired bunker barge at the Port of Cape Town.
The move follows the recent appointment by FFS of the former operations manager for Safmarine, Dennis Henwood, as its representative in that port.
The positioning of a bunker barge at Cape Town became possible once FFS had successfully bid for eight steel barges at an auction held in Richards Bay last week. A total of 16 barges went under the hammer at the former premises of Rowley Morgan Engineering.
Each of the eight barges measures 46 metres by
10 metres. They were all built at Richards Bay several years ago for a proposed logging project on the Congo River.
The company involved has since gone into liquidation, leaving the unused barges to go under the hammer, with FFS Bunkers tagging half of them. It is understood that FFS also has an option for a further four unclaimed after the sale.
According to Captain Phil Harris of FFS Bunkers the company will convert one of the barges to carry bunker fuels and this will be transported to Cape Town as soon as possible, where it should go into service as Cape Town's only bunker barge.
Options for the use of the other barges will also be examined, he said.
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