Vivo Energy Mauritius today has become the first supplier to offer 380 cSt bunkers in the Southern Western part of the Indian Ocean, the company has told Ship & Bunker.
The product is now available both at berth and at anchorage in Port-Louis, Mauritius.
"To goal of offering 380 cSt is to grow the business, and we noticed that there has been a lot of requests for the grade so we know the demand is there," Eric Hufouye, Marine and Aviation Sales Manager at Vivo Energy Mauritius, explained to Ship & Bunker.
"We are targeting mainly passing by vessels that could easily stop, operating on the Asia / Australia - Western Africa / Latin America route."
The supplier, who also offers IFO180 and MGO, says it operates a bunker barge with capacities of 580 metric tonnes (mt) for MFO bunkers and 145 mt for MGO.
"An advantage of Port-Louis is that the port dues are very low, which makes the bunkers very attractive," noted Hufouye.
"There is also not much congestion in the port, and the anchorage is a very protected area - its a safe place to bunker."
Last month the nation's minister of finance and economic development, Charles Gaetan Xavier-Luc Duval, announced plans to triple Mauritius' annual bunker sales which currently stand at 300,000 tonnes per year.
