In a historic development, Pakistan has successfully executed the first large scale production and delivery of IMO compliant Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) from Karachi Port Trust Oil Pier. The milestone was achieved with Vitol’s Singapore flag bunker barge, Marine Ista with Dead Weight Tonnage (DWT) of 8,722MT.
This marks a major step forward for Pakistan’s energy and maritime sectors enabling the domestic production and supply of environmentally compliant marine fuels.
This important development was made possible through close collaboration of Prime Minister’s Maritime Task Force and other key stakeholders from the Government of Pakistan.
Providing IMO complaint very low sulphur fuel oil to the vessels owned and operated by largest shipping companies in the world will essentially work as catalyst to develop international standard blue economy in Pakistan.
It is pertinent to mention that Vitol has identified different areas of collaboration with particular focus on barge operations within the maritime sector.
