AFTER SEVERAL weeks without bunker supplies due to a shutdown for maintenance at Durban's Sapref refinery, the Port of Richards Bay is once again being restocked with fuel.
A small Kenya-owned tanker named Seagull has been chartered in to assist with supplies, helping the Durban based FFS bunker supply vessel Dolphin Coast that normally runs bunkers to the northern port.
Sapref's shutdown meant that the Engen refinery was hard pressed to fulfil all bunker requirements for the Durban market, with little or nothing left over for Richards Bay as a consequence. Seagull will also be employed on a number of bunker trips to Eastern Cape ports.
Meanwhile, Unicorn's products tanker Engen Simunye has been chartered out for a two - year period to Shell Australia and has sailed from South African waters. The prefix Engen has been dropped from the ship's name and consideration is also being given to re-spelling Simunye as something that even the Australian tongue can better get around.
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