Bunkering is the shipping industry practice of supplying fuel to a vessel and managing its loading and distribution among the ship's tanks, a term dating to the steamship era when coal was stored in shipboard compartments called bunkers. The Port of Singapore is the world's largest bunkering port today, and maritime law treats a vessel as unseaworthy if it puts to sea without being fully fuelled for the voyage. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Which port is the world's largest bunkering port?
The Port of Singapore.
Bunkering is the shipping industry practice of supplying fuel to a vessel and managing its loading and distribution among the ship's tanks, a term dating to the steamship era when coal was stored in shipboard compartments called bunkers. The Port of Singapore is the world's largest bunkering port today, and maritime law treats a vessel as unseaworthy if it puts to sea without being fully fuelled for the voyage.
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1. Wikipedia: Bunkering
WikipediaBunkering in maritime law section
Seaworthiness requires not only that the ship be sound and properly crewed, but also that it be fully fuelled (or 'bunkered') at the start of the voyage.
- Part Of: Maritime Transport
In Group: Ship Operations and Chartering Concepts, Lead sentence
Bunkering is the supplying of fuel for use by ships (such fuel is referred to as bunker), including the logistics of loading and distributing the fuel among available shipboard tanks.
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