Indonesia’s PIS seeks MR vessels to ship oil products

Market: Freight, Oil products
06/05/24

Indonesia's Pertamina International Shipping (PIS) is seeking two Medium Range (MR) vessels to ship clean oil products to Sulawesi and Central Java provinces for early-May loading.

PIS — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indonesian state-owned refiner Pertamina — has issued two spot tenders. The shipments can have a maximum unavoidable transportation loss of up to 0.07pc, according to the tenders.

A 200,000 bl shipment will load either from Singapore or Malaysia's Tanjung Bin, Tanjung Langsat or Pengerang during 10-11 May, before heading to two discharge ports in Indonesia's Baubau and Semarang. The tender closed at 10am Jakarta time (3am GMT) on 6 May.

The firm issued another tender that closed at 2pm Jakarta time on 3 May. The 300,000 bl shipment will load from the same potential ports during 8-9 May, before heading to Indonesia's Semarang.

PIS booked the 2021-built, 34,752 deadweight tonne Bowmore at $800,000 for a 200,000 bl shipment from Singapore to two discharge ports in Indonesia's Bau Bau and Wayame with loading from 17 April, through a tender that closed on 9 April.

By Sean Zhuang

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