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Global Vision Bunkers (Africa), situated in South Africa, is a Black Economically Empowered company drawing on local expertise to develop and expand existing markets. The company is headed up by Shanaaz Bennett, the newly re-elected chairperson of IBIA for Southern Africa. Shanaaz has a distinguished history in bunkers, having worked for Shell, as well as two worldwide trading groups and most recently was MD of Wilhelmsen Premier Marine Fuels in South Africa.

Global draws from both contract tonnage to secure product in times of limited availability as well as being very aggressive on the spot market.

Due to the volumes handled in the region, Global is known locally for its role as international licensed reseller of Sonangol product (state supplier of Angola) and is active throughout the continent both in port and offshore. Global is working hard with locals here and right across the continent to improve infrastructure and procedures to change the region’s image.

As such, it is improving fast with four state-of-the-art newbuild tankers now in the Bay of Luanda, illustrating the type of progress in port, and now has a total of eight internationally recognised Groups operating East and West Africa offshore with products guaranteeing ISO 2005 specs.

As an ever-developing continent, Africa is still embryonic in certain areas, particularly in the bunker market. As such, for the currently uninitiated and inexperienced in the region, in-port supplies in certain areas can be still a lottery. However, with the right trained professionals building a network of reliable suppliers, much is possible.

The region’s unreliable image of the past has been at times entirely warranted but the nightmare stories that have abounded have generally been down to a lack of professionalism and shortsighted profiteering. Consequently, poor quality control from those who don’t know what they are doing and who they are dealing with, threatens to tarnish the name of a burgeoning market place.

Such is our confidence in our supply base that Global provides free Fobas testing to all clients paying via Voyager, thereby providing the added reassurance not only of the Global name in Africa but quality guarantees too.

Contact details for the new office are as follows:
T: +277 9523 6000 (24-hr)
F: +278 6274 2554
E: africa@globalvisionbunkers.com