Powerful typhoon passes Taiwan
Taiwan's state-owned bunker supplier Chinese Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has reopened its office today, allowing bunkering actvities to resume following a temporary halt due to a 'Super Typhoon'.
China's National Meteorological Centre and the US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center have described the storm as a 'Super Typhoon'.
Bunkering activities in the ports of Taichung, Keelung and Suao were suspended for the whole of yesterday after Typhoon Wipha hit the country.
''The typhoon passed Taiwan at around 2.30 am local time today,'' a source from CPC told Bunkerworld.
''Bunker deliveries are back to normal today,'' she said.
Wipha had travelled at speed as high as 240 kilometres per hour (km/h), according to the US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
This mega-storm has now hit Shanghai in eastern China, forcing the evacuation of more than two million people in the city and neighbouring areas.
Experts said the storm could be the worst to hit China in a decade.
Wipha has been forecast to continue heading in a north easternly direction.
China's National Meteorological Centre and the US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center have described the storm as a 'Super Typhoon'.
Bunkering activities in the ports of Taichung, Keelung and Suao were suspended for the whole of yesterday after Typhoon Wipha hit the country.
''The typhoon passed Taiwan at around 2.30 am local time today,'' a source from CPC told Bunkerworld.
''Bunker deliveries are back to normal today,'' she said.
Wipha had travelled at speed as high as 240 kilometres per hour (km/h), according to the US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
This mega-storm has now hit Shanghai in eastern China, forcing the evacuation of more than two million people in the city and neighbouring areas.
Experts said the storm could be the worst to hit China in a decade.
Wipha has been forecast to continue heading in a north easternly direction.