Sinopec Launches Wholesale Bunker Deliveries to Hambantota
by Ship & Bunker News Team
Tuesday March 2, 2021
Chinese state energy company Sri Lanka to supply the
Hambantota market.
Hambantota International Port (HIP) said in a statement on Monday. 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. The tanker refuelled at the Hambantota Port anchorage via oil barge m.v. Kumana, chartered to LMS by HIP, to handle the bunker supply. Bunker operations at Hambantota were awarded to Sinopec after control of the port was handed over to Chinese interests by Sri Lanka s government in