The company has completed the installation of an Endress + Hauser Promass X mass flow meter on the MT Eager high sulphur fuel oil bunker barge. As stated by Maersk Oil Trading, a second vessel is also being planned.
Mainly, Maersk Oil Trading, part of A.P. Moller – Maersk, supplies fuel for Maersk’s global vessel fleet and third-party customers.
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Peter Beekhuis, Head of Trading at Maersk Oil Trading Singapore, stated that the installation of the Promass X will give to the company the delivery rates that are needed to keep pace with its customers’ demands while maintaining full transparency over the quantity delivered.
Also, the effectiveness of this initiative will be measured in real-time through an application, enabling optimisation of port calls and vessel operations.
The MT Eager’s mass flow meter has passed the test from the Singapore Maritime Authority.
According to Maersk Oil Trading
the solution is capable of delivery rates of up to 1,000 metric tonnes (mt) per hour, which the company claims is effectively double the flow capacity of other high sulphur-fuel oil mass flow meters in use
Finally, Maersk Oil Trading Singapore is installing the technology on two of its chartered vessels from the barge owner, Hong Lam Marine.
