FALMOUTH'S bunkering service will be up and running in mid January when international bunkering company Tramp Oil and Marine Services begin a new contract to supply fuel oil to ship in the bay and harbour.
Fuel and Marine Marketing Limited (FAMM) a joint initiative between the oil giants Chevron/Texaco pulled the plug on its bunkering operation at Falmouth before Christmas. Tramp Oil have bunkering operations in the Thames, Panama and Hull.
As exclusively reported in last week's Packet, JH Whitakers of Hull have been awarded the contract to supply a bunkering ship to ship fuel around the port. Their tanker Whitstar is currently in drydock undergoing repairs to carry out her new role at Falmouth. The first shipment of fuel oil is expected to arrive next week on the tanker Sea Merchant which will pump ashore 18,000 tonnes of oil to the Falmouth Oil Services (FOS) tank farm for storage until the Tramp Oil bunkering operation begins in mid-January.
FOS still has a contract with FAMM for its inland distribution business.
Falmouth harbour commissioners stood to lose £250,000 in harbour dues if the bunkering folded up all together and the pilotage service of the port would have lost over 50 per cent of its business overnight.
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