page_title: Bunkering
hierarchical_section_title: Bunkering
caption_attribution_description: English: Livestock carrier Awassi Express berthed at North Quay, Fremantle Harbour, Western Australia. She is receiving bunkers from the Panamanian chemical and oil tanker Vacamonte.
context_page_description: Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships, and includes the shipboard logistics of loading fuel and distributing it among available bunker tanks.
  The term originated in the days of steamships, when the fuel, coal, was stored in bunkers. Nowadays the term bunker is generally applied to the storage of petroleum products in tanks, and the practice and business of refueling ships. Bunkering operations are located at seaports, and they include the storage of "bunker" fuels and the provision of the fuel to vessels.
context_section_description: Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships, and includes the shipboard logistics of loading fuel and distributing it among available bunker tanks.
  The term originated in the days of steamships, when the fuel, coal, was stored in bunkers. Nowadays the term bunker is generally applied to the storage of petroleum products in tanks, and the practice and business of refueling ships.  Bunkering operations are located at seaports, and they include the storage of "bunker" (ship) fuels and the provision of the fuel to vessels.
caption: A livestock carrier receiving fuel from a bunker vessel in Fremantle Harbour, Australia
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