World Bunkering > News > Winter 2009 > CYE Petrol/Istanbul

CYE Petrol Tic Ltd Sti was founded on May 12 1988 by C.Yalçın ERAY DIN. The company’s first experience in business was her being involved in the petroleum products trade of Iraq with Europe during the Iraq-Iran war, through Turkey by the so called “truck pipe line”, which started in Iraq and ended at terminals like Iskenderun and Mersin in Turkey. At the same time the company represented major European petroleum trading companies in supply or purchase of products from TUPRAS and PETKIM, as well as other major petroleum distribution companies located in Turkey; the company continues this line of business. CYE Petrol Tic Ltd Sti started bunker fuel trading in 1992 and is the first physical bunker supplier established and located in Gulf of Izmit. Since May 1992 the company has been a physical bunker supplier of MGO and IFO grades in Turkey.

The CYE Petrol Bunker Terminal is conveniently located at Poliport in the Gulf of Izmit, where there is good road distribution. All grades of high quality marine products are prepared with in-tank blending and line blending facilities. CYE Petrol is one of the most experienced physical bunker suppliers, with more than 20 years of expertise and over 30,000 bunker supplies in Istanbul. Bunker deliveries are managed professionally by a bunker barge fleet under CYE Petrol’s control. In 2006 the company decided to reshape the bunker barge fleet’s substructure to meet demand from the growing bunker market in Istanbul and Black Sea Ports. In 2007, the number of bunker barges decreased, replaced by better equipped barges with higher technology and increased performance. The company supplied high quality product to more vessels, with greater volumes, in the most time efficient way.

As of November 2008, responding to demand for higher quantity FO, mostly from container lines and cruise lines in Istanbul, CYE Petrol put into operation the biggest bunker barge in Istanbul, M/T BEBEK-E. She has 3,300 mt FO/HFO supply capacity with a pumping rate of 650 mt/hour. M/T BEBEK-E complies with the “Undersecretariat of Maritime Affairs’ declared new regulations” for safety and operation standards according to MARPOL Agreements 73/78, the ISPS Code and SOLAS Amendments 2002. In 2009, necessary modifications were completed to provide the segregation of low-sulphur materials in the bunker terminal and bunker barges. As of February 2009, CYE Petrol started storing/ supplying low-sulphur MGO (0.1%) from the bunker terminal in August 2009, new bunker barge, M/T TARABYA-E (670 dwt), joined CYE Petrol bunker barge fleet for gasoil 0.1 deliveries. In the bunker terminal at Poliport, cargo discharges are expertly managed by Caleb Brett or SGS surveys. Quality is ascertained through a Caleb Brett analysis report. Only after their approval is the cargo discharged to the shore tanks. The customer’s required quality is reached using a computerised blending facility. Again, bunker barge loadings are handled by Caleb Brett surveyors.

There is close inspection at every level to insure constant quality levels. The company bunkers in all Istanbul ports, in the Sea of Marmara (Bandırma, Mudanya, Gemlik, Tekirdag), in the Black Sea coasts of Turkey (Karadeniz Eregli, Bartın, Zonguldak) and in the Gulf of Izmit (Derince, Yarımca, Hereke, Gebze etc). CYE Petrol Tic Ltd Sti holds the physical bunker supplier licence of “EPDK (Energy Market Regulatory Authority)” no: IHR/482-4/11098, which last until the year 2020. The company acts as a trader in other Turkish ports and around the world for supplying bunker fuel. You can get the latest news and information about the Turkish bunker market from www.cyepetrol. com.tr.

CYE PETROL TIC LTD STI
Tel: +90 216 345 47 00
Fax: +90 216 330 50 68
Website: www.cyepetrol.com.tr