Mombasa port receives seven merchant tankers for petroleum delivery

Seven merchant shipping tankers are scheduled to call at the port of Mombasa this week to deliver various petroleum products. Among them is the medium-range tanker M. T. Bellatrix, carrying over 21,000 MT of Shell V-Power petroleum product.

According to the Kenya Ports Authority shipping schedule, the M. T. Bellatrix is slated to discharge its cargo at the Shimanzi Oil Terminal. Vivo Energy Kenya, the exclusive importer and distributor of Shell V-Power in Kenya, manages the product, which is transported from the Mombasa terminal to Nairobi via Kenya Railways Corporation rail tankers for distribution to service stations.

Other scheduled discharges include the M. T. Bow Lynx, carrying 4,900 MT of base oil at the Shimanzi Oil Terminal, as well as the M. T. Torm Sublime, carrying 85,000 MT of gasoil, and the M. T. Maria, carrying 40,000 MT of gasoil, both destined for the Kipevu Oil Terminal (KOT) II.