The country's energy ministry has prepared draft amendments excluding bunker fuel, gasoils and some middle distillates from the export ban announced last week.
SARS has made its first public comment on South Africa's tax and customs dispute with the bunker industry after supply at Algoa Bay was all but shut down last week.
Bunker One and Acelen will launch the operation in the anchorage area of the Port of Itaqui in São Marcos Bay from this month, and see this as the first step in increasing activity in the region.