Sinopec Delivers Wholesale Bunker Fuels to Hambantota

Chinese state energy company Sinopec has begun making wholesale deliveries ot bunker
fuel to Sri Lanka to supply the Hambantota market, says an article published in Ship & Bunker.

Sinpec’s first buyer

Local supplier Lanka Marine Services (LMS) was Sinopec’s first buyer, Hambantota
International Port (HIP) said in a statement.

“LMS supplied IMO 2020 compliant Very Low Sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) to their client, crude oil tanker m.v. Suez Hans, which was on route to the Suez from Chennai,” HIP said.

“Th...

https://mfame.guru/sinopec-delivers-wholesale-bunker-fuels-to-hambantota/

Ambitious Sri Lanka wants to become a global maritime and logistics centre

Sri Lanka has ambitions to move up from being a south Asia transhipment hub to a global maritime and logistics centre on a par with Dubai and Singapore.
“Geographically, what a lot of people don’t understand, is Sri Lanka has immense advantages,” said Rohan Masakorala, chief executive of Shippers’ Academy Colombo.
“We’re in the middle of the Indian Ocean, with these two hubs almost equally either side: Sri Lanka is four days’ …

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