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"No Loud Call" for Mass Flow Meters in Gibraltar: Sanguinetti
There is currently "no loud call" for the implementation of mandatory use of mass flow meters (MFMs) for bunkering operations at the Port of Gibraltar, Bob Sanguinetti, CEO at the Gibraltar Port Authority (GPA) has told Ship & Bunker.
As such, Sanguinetti says the port authority has "no immediate plans" to introduce MFMs at the port.
"We have a small number of physical suppliers in Gibraltar - four physical suppliers in Gibraltar - as opposed to a much large number that exists, for example, in Singapore," explains Sanguinetti.
"There is no loud call from the shipping community for the introduction of MFMs. We have very few complaints related to both quantity and quality, both of which we regulate carefully and intervene when we're asked to."
As Ship & Bunker reported in October, Compañía Española de Petróleos, S.A.U. (Cepsa) said it had become the first bunker supplier in the Strait of Gibraltar to install MFMs on its barges, and had plans to extend the use of MFMs to its barges in other ports, including Barcelona, Las Palmas, Tenerife, Huelva, and Gibraltar itself.
