Most storage terminals and berths at the Middle East's key products storage and bunkering centre Fujairah, the UAE, are operating, following earlier suspensions of operations, according to trade and shipping sources.
At the 1.18mn m³ Fujairah Oil Tanker Terminal (FOTT), all the berths of Oil Terminal 1 (OT1) and a VLCC jetty are operating and few berths at OT2 are able to accept vessels, shipping agent reports showed.
FOTT, where most crude loadings take place, had sustained damage from "falling debris following a successful interception by the air defenses" on 9 March, according the emirate of Fujairah's press office.
Abu Dhabi state-owned Adnoc earlier today informed equity partners that it will now allow its international partners with a share of Murban production to load some March-loading volumes of the grade from Fujairah port.
One bunker supplier said they were waiting for the port's permission to send a barge to Vopak Horizon's storage terminal, another key terminal in Fujairah, even though it was still not operating as of this morning.
All other fuel terminals are operating, except Mena Fujairah Terminal, where drone debris damaged naphtha tanks last week.
Many tank terminal operators had stopped loadings as Iran continued to target the regions energy infrastructure in retaliation for the US-Israeli air strikes, but limited bunker supply operations continued, mostly from the products stored in barges, bunker suppliers said. Fujairah is a key supplier of bunker fuel for ships transiting the strait of Hormuz and is the world's third-largest crude and products storage hub.
