A fire at a Greek refinery on Tuesday caused a crude cargo to divert, but another VLCC has made it to a berth.
The blaze struck the Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth plant, damaging a distillation unit, which is offline.
Kpler reported that Greek owner Samos Steamship’s 112,000-dwt aframax Calypso (built 2021) waited at anchor for less than 12 hours, before moving out to sea.
AIS data showed it heading to Castellon in Spain on Friday.
The tanker left Novorossisyk in Russia on 9 September, carrying a cargo of Kazakhstani crude from the CPC terminal.
One VLCC that did make it into port was Dynacom’s 318,000-dwt Ioanna (built 2008).
The ship docked on Thursday after discharging part of its cargo at Ain Sukna in Egypt, Kpler said.
The refinery mainly imports Basrah Medium crude, but after an attack by Houthi forces in the Red Sea on a Basrah Heavy cargo bound for Corinth, it has imported Guyanese crude for the first time.
More than 30 tankers call at the Agioi Theodoroi complex each month.
On Wednesday, TradeWinds reported that Motor Oil said it had managed to extinguish the fire but was operating “at reduced capacity for the time being”.
The company is part of Greece’s sprawling Vardinoyiannis business empire.
One of two crude distillation units was affected and is expected to remain offline for at least several weeks.
Sources told TradeWinds that seaborne crude imports will dip as a result but that imports of other feedstock will probably rise.
About 180 port calls have been registered at Agioi Theodoroi over the past six months, according to Signal Ocean data. MR tankers made 60% of those calls, with MR2s and suezmaxes accounting for 13% each. Vessels wait an average of 2.2 days at the refinery.
