The charts below are built up from the daily fuels that have been delivered around New Zealand. The charts come from a database that I keep and update each day.
Posted 01/01/2025
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This month we have seen one shipment of fuel coming from Suhar Oman, yes you read that correctly. A journey that took the vessel a full calendar month, the vessel left Oman of the 12th of December and arrived at Port Taranaki on the 12th of January.
Now one has to ask a question or two, even more about what and why this went on, and guess what? no one questioned this event and it never made any MSM News, you think it would, or at least have gotten a mention, no.
Last month we had Bitumen arriving from New Orleans, good old Asphalt from the USA and this month fuel form the Middle East, what is going on here, and even more than that, this vessel came all that way, discharged it's fuel and then departed to Asia, happy sailing.
How much did that cost? I have no idea.
Now Single Port Vessels.
This month we have seen 17 new vessels arriving and discharging fuels throughout the North and South Island's, normal activity except for this. 8 of those vessels arrived and then went back to sea to another destination elsewhere overseas.
The details.
Marsden point had 5 of those vessels which is normal, the port is deep and can handle these VLC's, very large carrier's that can't go to any other port, the other ports are not deep enough. The other ports were, Taranaki, Timaru and Tauranga where 3 vessels did the same thing, smaller LR1M vessels.
Thank you for reading, David.