Haiti fuel shipments resume after terminal repair

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Fuel shipments to Haiti’s  Varreux main tanker terminal have resumed after emergency  repairs on the facility damaged in last month’s earthquake, the  operator and a U.S. company that helped with the repairs said  yesterday.

Shipments to the privately owned Port-au-Prince terminal,  which normally receives and stores more than 70 percent of  Haiti’s fuel, had been halted since the Jan. 12 quake damaged  its piers and installations. The earthquake also badly damaged  Port-au-Prince’s main seaport.

Varreux’s Haitian operator WIN Group and equipment and  service provider SEACOR Holdings Inc. said in a statement the  first shipment of fuel to the restored berth was completed  early on Sunday and the vessel had departed.

“We are all taking a deep breath now that the fuel supply  to Haiti has been restored,” said Youri Mevs, managing partner  of WIN Group.