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“We employ 80 people full-time and on average 150-200 service providers. These people help us to operate and maintain four ship-loading berths,
to conduct maintenance to the tune of R25million per annum and to distribute over 10billion litres of product per annum to the”Southern African region.
SAPREF’s Site 3 at Island View.
The Island
SAPREF Island View is the terminal for the distribution of finished products. They are dispatched from Island View via ship, road, rail and pipeline.
Sometimes people don’t realise what a hive of activity the Island View operation is.
Explains Zanele Madinane, Production Unit Manager for Island
View: “We employ 80 people full-time and
on average 150-200 service providers. These people help us to operate and maintain four ship-loading berths, to conduct maintenance to the tune of R25million per annum and to distribute over 10billion litres of product
per annum to the Southern African region. In addition, we operate 60 storage tanks, while the supply depot loads 250 trucks and 40 railcars per day, supplies 250 ship cargoes per year, and supplies 4300 ships with marine fuel
per year. In addition we also manage the storage of fuel products at four tank farms.”
SAPREF’s blending plant at Island View became independent of SAPREF in 1992, and took the name Blendcor.
In the mid-1990s, centralisation was the word at Island View. A large administration building was constructed to house the new centralised operation and control, which was previously done from five different sites.
At the same time, the SAPREF-operated Joint Bunker Services (JBS) moved from Island View to a custom-designed facility nearby. JBS was responsible for delivering fuel oil by pipeline to visiting ships. However, in 2008 JBS was closed and all ships in Durban harbour
are now fuelled by bunker barge. SAPREF Island View operates the bunker berth (berth 10).
Transnet is currently investing in a bigger multi-product pipeline (NMPP) from Durban
to Johannesburg. To supply the increased
fuel capacity, SAPREF
has invested more than R100million to upgrade the system that ties into the NMPP site. Project completion is planned for mid-2014.
Says Zanele: “The Island View team is committed to continuing the strides it is making
in safety performance, development of people, especially women, and proudly taking its place as SAPREF plans the next 50 years!”
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