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Uniper signs deal to divest its UAE-based bunker trading business to consortium

Uniper agrees to sell 100% of its shares in Uniper Energy DMCC to a consortium of Montfort Group and Private Office of Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum.

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German firm Uniper on Thursday (16 February) said it has reached an agreement to sell 100% of the shares in its United Arab Emirates-based crude oil processing and marine fuel trading business (Uniper Energy DMCC) to a consortium of Montfort Group and the Private Office of Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum. 

The parties agreed to not disclose the agreed purchase price and the acquisition is expected to be completed in the coming months, subject to satisfaction of certain conditions precedent.

Uniper Energy DMCC is producing and supplying IMO 2020 compliant low sulphur fuel oils to the Fujairah market – the third largest bunker fuel market in the world. The business comprises the operation of a crude processing facility in the Port of Fujairah, selling over 30 million barrels of low sulphur fuel oil to the shipping industry each year, and a trading office based in Dubai, including a team of around 25 people.

Divestment of this non-strategic participation is part of the remedies Uniper must fulfill under EU state aid law. On December 20th 2022, the EU Commission approved the stabilization package for Uniper under state aid law. As part of the approval, the EU Commission set out a number of structural remedies that Uniper must fulfil. On January 16, Uniper has announced the divestment from its 20% stage in the BBL gas pipeline as a first remedy measure under EU state aid law.

Argus Media previously said Uniper received bids in its tender to sell its subsidiary Uniper Energy.

Global bunker supplier Montfort, a major supplier of bunker-grade high-sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) in Fujairah, was said to have offered the highest bid, according to market sources, with estimates in the $60mn-80mn range.

Montfort’s bid shows the firm wants to expand from being an HSFO supplier to a major VLSFO producer, the main bunker fuel sold in Fujairah.

Manifold Times previously reported Uniper stating the EU Commission (EC) approved the stabilisation package for Uniper under state aid law but under certain conditions including divesting Uniper Energy DMCC. 

Related: Argus Media: Uniper concludes Fujairah bunker fuel refinery sale tender
Related: Uniper to divest Middle East bunkering business as condition for stabilisation package
Related: Argus Media: Uniper declares force majeure on Fujairah bunker supply

 

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Published: 17 February, 2023

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Winding up

Singapore: Notice of dividend issued for Hin-Leong linked Ocean Tankers

Second interim dividend for Hin Leong Trading’s shipping arm, Ocean Tankers Pte Ltd, is scheduled to be released from 31 July, according to Government Gazette notice.

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A notice of dividend for Ocean Tankers Pte Ltd, the shipping arm of collapsed oil trader Hin Leong Trading that is currently in liquidation, was published in the Government Gazette on June 11.

Ocean Tankers is part of a group of companies which include troubled Hin Leong, Universal Terminal, Tuas Terminal, and Ocean Bunkering Services (OBS).

It was reportedly owned by Lim Oon Kuin, the founder of Hin Leong Trading, and his daughter Lim Huey Ching. 

The following are details of the notice of dividend:

Name of Company : Ocean Tankers (Pte.) Ltd (In Liquidation)
Unique Entity No. / Registration No. : 197800020G
Address of Registered Office : One Raffles Quay, North Tower, Level 18, Singapore 048583
Court : General Division of the High Court of the Republic of Singapore
Number of Matter : HC/CWU 117/2021
Amount per centum : Second interim dividend of 2.00% of all admitted claims of unsecured creditors
When payable : 31 July 2026
Where payable : c/o Ernst & Young LLP, One Raffles Quay, North Tower, Level 18, Singapore 048583 

Related: Singapore: Notice of intended dividend issued for Ocean Tankers Pte Ltd
Related: Hin Leong in debt restructuring exercise; Ocean Tankers a separate entity, says CEO
Related: Ocean Tankers legal team publishes application to be placed under judicial management
Related: Judicial management applications for Hin Leong Trading and Ocean Tankers delayed
Related: Judicial managers of Ocean Tankers discover discrepancies and fraud in exposure claims
Related: Judicial managers of Ocean Tankers to present restructuring proposals to owners

 

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Published: 12 June, 2026

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Singapore: Xin Hui Shipping to be wound up voluntarily, creditors to submit claims

Creditors are required on or before 11 July 2026 to send in their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims to appointed liquidators, says notice.

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Several resolutions for Xin Hui Shipping Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of the Lim family owned Xihe Holdings Pte Ltd, were made during an extraordinary general meeting held on 3 June, according to a notice in the Government Gazette on Friday (4 July).

The meeting was held at 8 Marina View, #40-04/05, Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore 018960 and by electronic means at 10am. 

The following resolutions were duly passed during the meeting:

SPECIAL RESOLUTION – WINDING-UP

That the Company be wound up voluntarily pursuant to Section 160(1)(b) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018.

ORDINARY RESOLUTION – APPOINTMENT OF LIQUIDATORS

That Mr. Lau Chin Huat and Mr. Yeo Boon Keong of Technic Inter-Asia Pte Ltd, 50 Havelock Road, #02-767, Singapore 160050 be and are hereby appointed as joint and several liquidators to conduct the said winding-up and that their remuneration be fixed on the usual scale of their professional charges for the work involved.

SPECIAL RESOLUTION – DISTRIBUTION OF ASSETS IN SPECIE

That the liquidators of the Company be authorised to exercise any of their powers given by Section 177, 144 (1) and (2) of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act 2018 and to distribute to members, in specie, any part of the assets of the Company.

In another notice, the liquidators said creditors for the company are required on or before the 11 July 2026 to send in their names and addresses and particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors (if any) to the liquidators. 

Liquidators may also require creditors to, “come in and prove their debts or claims at such time and place as shall be specified in such notice, or in default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made before such debts are proved.”

The liquidator can be contacted at the following address:

Lau Chin Huat
Yeo Boon Keong
Joint and Several Liquidators
c/o Technic Inter-Asia Pte Ltd
50 Havelock Road #02-767 Singapore 160050
Tel: 6561 0398 Fax: 6222 1855
Email: [email protected]

 

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Published: 12 June, 2026

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Ports of Barcelona and Shanghai team up to develop green ports, alternative bunker fuels

Agreement officially establishes the ‘sister ports’ relationship between Shanghai and Barcelona and aims to boost cooperation in areas such as developing green ports and alternative fuels.

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The Port of Barcelona on Thursday (11 June) said it signed a new strategic cooperation agreement with the Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission (SMTC) and Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG).

The agreement officially establishes the “sister ports” relationship between Shanghai and Barcelona and aims to boost cooperation in areas such as the digitalisation and security of port operations; developing green ports and alternative fuels; intermodality and fostering sustainable maritime corridors between the Far East and the Mediterranean. 

The agreement was signed by José Alberto Carbonell, president of the Port of Barcelona; Xiao Hui, general director of the SMTC, and Yang ZhiYong, vice president of SIPG, in the presence of Jaume Duch, Regional Minister for European Union and Foreign Action. 

The relationship between the Port of Barcelona and the Port of Shanghai has intensified in recent years. In late July 2025, a preliminary agreement was signed between both port authorities, which led to a technical visit in September 2025 by a delegation from Shanghai led by Wang Haijian, Vice President and Director of Operations of SIPG, to advance the development of the Green Shipping and Digital Corridor between both ports. 

“This new institutional visit and the signing of the new agreement consolidates the Port of Barcelona’s position as a Euro-Mediterranean logistics hub and strengthens its links with one of the main ports and economic centres in the world,” the port said. 

 

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Published: 12 June, 2026

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