PTP sues over lost revenues from last year’s huge bunker spill
MMC Corporation, the parent of the Malaysian Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), is taking compatriot owner Rising Star Shipping and the Shipowners P&I Club to court in Kuala Lumpur, demanding damages from a massive bunker spill 11 months ago that saw much traffic have to reroute to neighbouring ports.
A 60 metric ton oil spill at Tanjung Bin on August 24 last year seriously affected operations at PTP to the point where Maersk Line and others diverted a number of ships from PTP to neighbouring Singapore.
The accident Rising Stars’ Trident Star was taking on bunker fuel at a terminal controlled by VTTI, the storage division of the world’s largest oil trader Vitol.
MMC is now suing Rising Star and its P&I club for RM31,862,212 ($7.43m) plus a 5% interest rate