EMEA News
Fujairah Pipeline Complete
A pipeline connecting the Port of Fujairah with Vopak Horizon Fujairah's storage facility has begun operations, Abu Dhabi-based newspaper The National reports.
The project allows the facility to load products onto 11 tankers at once, where it had previously only been able to serve seven at its onsite jetty.
"This project was really for us to connect to the port to give us more flexibility to use the infrastructure in the port," said Yusr Hussain Sultan Al Junaidy, the chief executive of Horizon Terminals.
Horizon Terminals, a subsidiary of Emirates National Oil Co, and Dutch fuel storage company Royal Vopak N.V. (Vopak), are partners in Vopak Horizon Fujairah, which is expanding its storage capacity to 4 million cubic feet from its current level of 2.1 million.
Vopak said in August that it had projects underway in various locations around the world and expected to add 4.6 million cubic meters of storage capacity by 2015, bringing its overall capacity to about 35 million cubic meters.
