UK & Europe
English Channel-Bunkers Only Service
Our new English channel bunkering facility brings the supply of bunkers into the 21st century, providing shipowners & charterers the option of buying competitively priced bunkers on entry to the English Channel.
Open to deep draft vessels of all types, the facility offers low/high sulphur fuel variants and gasoil at three anchorages with protection from prevailing south westerly weather.
Responding to its customers’ demands for greater service and competition in the region, Cockett established a bunkers-only operation to serve the River Thames, its estuary, as well as the English Channel.
Ship operators using the English Channel and The North Sea Emissions Control Area can now secure a competitive advantage thanks to the collective expertise of Cockett Marine Oil.
Located in the Queen’s Channel, a sheltered area in the Thames Estuary off the coast of Kent, and within the Port of London Authority’s jurisdiction, Cockett provides bunkers-only from three dedicated deep water anchorages. In addition, Cockett’s tankers are supplying bunkers in the Northern French ports, notably Boulogne and Dunkirk.
Cockett’s bunkers-only service builds upon its own longstanding bunker trading skills and the collective expertise of partners within the Grindrod Group, working especially closely with in house tanker operator Unicorn Shipping and Rotterdam-based Associated Bunkeroil Contractors. The well-established Rotterdam-based physical supplier operates four bunker tankers delivering marine fuels to ships in the ports of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp, whilst sister company Unicorn Shipping provides specially designed and built modern high class barges to the oil majors operation in the key South African ports of Durban and Cape Town.
A full range of fuel oils, including low/high sulphur fuel variants, as well as gasoil, are delivered by barge, loading both directly from Rotterdam and localised dedicated Thames-based storage facilities, enabling customers to avoid time-consuming and costly diversions from the main English Channel shipping lanes. Customers can take advantage of being closer to the traffic separation schemes, resulting in a diversion of only one to two hours from the major shipping lanes, in sharp contrast to the deviations to reach the other bunkers-only locations elsewhere in the English Channel.
Operating modern tankers able to carry a range of marine fuels, turnaround times are quick and ensure the highest possible standards in terms of Ship-to-Ship Transfer and make Cockett’s services on both sides of the Channel highly cost-effective
The English Channel is now a serious bunker hub thanks to its location and ability to take advantage of cheaper fuel prices from Rotterdam and Cockett’s trading and physical supply expertise.
> Press release (July 2010)
> Press release (Aug 2010)
> Press release (Sep 2010)
Please call +44(0)1689 883430 or e-mail thames@cockett.com
for further details.
