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Ice, Cold Delays New York Bunkering
Fuel oil deliveries in the New York Harbor area have been delayed by cold and ice, Platts reports.
"We have barges stuck, not able to berth, because of ice, which the Coast Guard will help break," one source said in the story, published Friday.
"Large barges are sitting at docks because of rough weather out in the ocean."
Gusts of wind as high as 32 miles per hour also caused some delays in the harbour, sources said.
"[It] will work itself out, but with storms ETAs just get pushed back both for wholesale resupply and for retail deliveries," a New York trader said.
The Bergen Point area in nearby New Jersey was closed at one point, sources said.
"We held up all tankers, container ships and barges for about 12 hours due to visibility," a source at the US Coast Guard's Vessel Traffic Service New York said Friday.
The rough weather came more than a year after New York and New Jersey ports faced severe problems due to Hurricane Sandy.
