SINGAPORE: Vitol and Cnergyico, Pakistan’s largest oil refiner, have delivered the country’s biggest single shipment of very low sulfur fuel oil for ship refueling, the global trading firm said in a statement late Monday.
The move will enable large vessels refueling in Pakistan to now sail longer routes from east to west without needing to stop elsewhere, while also giving Pakistan a stronger local supply of environmentally compliant marine fuel.
This shipment came from Cnergyico’s first large-scale batch of fuel that meets International Maritime Organization (IMO) low-sulfur rules. The company began producing it after importing its first US crude oil cargoes in August and September.
Vitol delivered the VLSFO to a vessel owned and operated by shipping major MSC at Port Qasim, using a Singapore-flagged bunker barge Marine Ista that has the capacity to supply 6,800 metric tons of marine fuel in a single delivery.
It was also the first barge to load fuel directly from the Karachi Port Trust’s Oil Pier rather than through truck deliveries.
