SEKAVIN
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PROFILE
Keeping the MARITIME INDUSTRY fuelled up SEKAVIN is a Greek family-owned, global energy provider, committed to reliable and efficient bunkering services. The company is a physical supplier in Piraeus and Syros, where SEKAVIN owns a strategically located fuel bunkering station in the Central Aegean. SEKAVIN also services a wide range of customers through its global bunker and lubricant trading desk. With more than 40 years of experience, its team is highly regarded for ensuring efficient and high-quality services to a host of clients. Profile by Andy Probert.
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stablished in 1979, SEKAVIN has become a specialised, leading supplier of fuel oils, distillates and lubricants to the broader region around Piraeus Port, Agioi Theodoroi and Syros Island. The company’s physical supply desk is complemented by a back-to-back bunker trading division that serves clients worldwide, a physical operations unit for vessels coming to Greek ports and an agency mainly serving clients in Greek ports. The $200 million company, which employs 120 people, registered an average 15% growth in volumes in 2021 and has predicted similar growth in 2022. “The combination of these three units brings added value to our customers, serving them across the entire value chain surrounding their bunkering operations,” commented Sifis Vardinoyannis, Director to the Company Board, and day-to-day Operations Manager. “SEKAVIN has been one of the main suppliers in Greece since its founding and has maintained good market share in the bunkering market. Our philosophy entails catering to clients’ priorities and providing competitively priced, effective services.”
Quality bunkering operation SEKAVIN’s ownership and operation of a bunkering station south of Syros Island, in the Central Aegean, is logistically placed to serve vessels on various routes: from the West Mediterranean and Adriatic to North Greece, the Bosporus Straits, Black Sea, Asia Minor Levant and Suez Canal.
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