Adani plans bunkering hub in Gulf of Kutch

Adani plans bunkering hub in Gulf of Kutch
ABHISHEK SHANKER

TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2006 03:27:58 AM]

AHMEDABAD: Even as the basic port infrastructure is getting a fillip,
Indian companies are now looking at the high-margin port support
services like bunkering or re-fuelling facilities, . Adani Bunkering
Services, part of the Adani Exports, is hoping to create a bunkering hub
in the high-traffic region of Gulf of Kutch.

Adani’s will be the first Indian company to start such facilities even
for ships in the high-seas, thereby opening up a market for re-fuelling
of ships not anchoring at the Mundra Port. “We will receive the first
ship for high-seas bunkering later this month and second vessel in
February,” Chandan P Samaiyar, head (Bunkering), Adani Enterprises told ET.

High industrialisation in the western coast of Gujarat has fuelled the
opportunities in bunkering. “The Gulf of Kutch sees high traffic of over
2,800 vessels and going forward a lot of projects involving refineries
and SEZs are coming up in the region, which will increase the traffic in
the gulf in coming years,” Mr Samaiyar said.

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