Phoenix Oil Supply, which set up as a new physical bunker supplier and cargo trader in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp market a year ago, has taken its first time chartered barge.
As of March 1, Phoenix took the Alpha, a 3,150 mt bunker barge with double hull/bottom on time charter. The 2007-built vessel is equipped with an in-line blender and a traditional flow-meter.
“We started low profile with spot barges only, but the increased demand and the close co-operation with Toyota Tsusho Petroleum almost forced us to take it a step further,” company founder and managing director Vincent de Vos told Platts Thursday.
“Looking back over the first year we have grown the company and become a recognized supplier with a stable and loyal customer-base,” he added.
So far, the company has supplied 155,000 mt of product, de Vos said.
Phoenix supplies all products and covers the full ARA range, but as it is based in the Netherlands it focuses most on that area.
Prior to setting up Phoenix Oil Supply, de Vos was managing director at OW Bunker Netherlands. The new company includes several former OW Netherlands employees.