Quarterly December 2008 - Odfjell

Bunkering facilities at OOTS
OTK is getting bigger
By: Atle Knutsen
By Mr. Sang-Ki Lee
Time is one of Odfjell’s highest cost
elements. Loss of time is also carrying
many and various cost elements that
are creating a compounded effect.
Singapore, as many other ports around
the world, has its challenges when
it comes to efficient port operations.
During 2008 an estimated 66 (deep sea
vessels only) port calls in Singapore is
causing Odfjell ships to spend a total of
213 days in port. Worse; more than half
of this time, 53% to be exact, is caused
by delays beyond owner’s control.
35% is spent waiting for available berths
whilst we are using 6 % of the total
port time; or 190 hours for bunkering
operations. Something needed to be
done about this.
At Odfjell’s joint venture terminal in
Singapore; Oiltanking Odfjell Terminal
Singapore (OOTS), Matrix Marine Fuels
has now established bunkering facilities
at OOTS that supplies ships with good
quality bunkers ex pipe concurrently
with the vessels loading, discharging
and/or transhipping cargoes board-toboard.
This makes OOTS the only one-stop
terminal in Singapore in this respect
and effectively cutting down time in
port in proportion with the frequency
of calls to the terminal. It will make a
big bite into the time spent in port for
bunkering and it also ensures better
and predictable bunker quality to the
shipping industry. It’s a safer operation
than transferring bunker alongside at
an anchorage as well as testing and
quality assurance of the bunker are well
taken care of.
Presently there is 6,000 cbm capacity for
HFO 380 fuel and 1,000 cbm for gas oil
which has the capacity to supply about
150,000 tons of fuel and 15,000 tons
of gas oil per annum. This bunkering
facility does not only serve the Odfjell
ships, but is at the willing service for all
ships calling the terminal thus offering
overall port time savings. Terminal
customers are also welcoming these
arrangements, as it means that owners
over time may favour facilities with the
most optimal operations. The bunkering
facilities opened for operations during
August this year.
The proactive initiative of Odfjell, Matrix
Marine Fuels and OOTS have made
this bunker operations available for all
ships calling the OOTS terminal and
helps making Singapore become a more
efficient port overall.
Following the completion of expansion
2 (E-2) this spring, Odfjell Terminals
(Korea) has now started its 3rd
expansion, E-3. 8 carbon steel tanks of
9,990kl will be built with a total capacity
of 79,920kl. These tanks have already
been pinpointed for customers on longterm
contracts.
Byucksan Engineering was elected as
contractor and the contract signing was
held in July at Byucksan Engineering’s
office in Seoul.
This project, similar to E-2, is contracted
on a turn-key base, which means all
the construction work, test runs and
acquiring permits will be carried out by
Byucksan Engineering.
The piling construction is ahead of
estimated schedule and full piling
completion of total 1448 piles will be end
of November. Two of the tank foundations
are completed and the tank bottom plate
constructions are now in process.
Total mechanical completion is
estimated mid August next year.
When completed, the terminal’s total
capacity will be 250,890m³ on 72 tanks
including the 2 slop tanks.
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