The Port of Cape Town has denied industry claims that bunkering only happens during daylight hours and that bunkering during the night has been stopped.
“Bunkering is undertaken on a 24-hour basis via the bunker barge, subject to weather conditions,” said Coen Birkenstock, manager: corporate affairs for Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) at the port of Cape Town.
Several industry role-players, however, maintain that all bunkering during the night has been brought to a halt.
This is the same message being shared by Joint Bunker Services (JBS), the joint venture between several oil companies offering fuel and lubricants to marine customers at the port.
In July the operation told industry that all operations at the Cape Town port were being limited to daylight hours only and bunkering operations and services would be available only between 7.30am to 6pm.
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