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Two India-flagged LPG carriers, Jag Vasant and Pine Gas, person transited through the Strait of Hormuz connected Monday (March 23, 2026) evening. They are unneurotic carrying astir 93,000 tonnes of LPG, arsenic per the inter-Ministerial briefing held connected Monday (March 23).
Jag Vasant and Pine Gas, owned by Great Eastern Shipping and Seven Island Shipping respectively, are apt to scope Indian ports betwixt March 26 and 28.
In addition, a flurry of LPG import shipments that came successful the past fewer days and scheduled for the upcoming week whitethorn person eased the cooking state situation somewhat. In a motion of this, the authorities had announced a 20% summation successful commercialized LPG allocations, taking it to 50% of pre-war levels adjacent portion saying the LPG concern continues to beryllium worrisome.
The authorities had said that home LPG accumulation had accrued by 40%, which would mean an further 18,000 tonnes accumulation a day, bringing down the approximate regular import request from 55,000 tonnes. At mean times, India would request astatine slightest 1 Very Large Gas Carrier of immoderate 55,000 tonne to dock astatine 1 of its ports each time and discharge the cargo.
Two foreign-owned and foreign-flagged LPG carriers, Hellas Gladiator and Gas Jupiter, each carrying 24,000 tonnes are expected to scope Vishakhapatnam connected March 30.
Hellas Gladiator had loaded successful Netherlands. Port sources accidental that this shipment is portion of the strategical determination to root LPG from European markets to bypass the ongoing proviso constraints successful West Asia. The vas is underway successful the Indian Ocean. Gas Jupiter loaded its cargo successful the U.S.
The cavern task of SA-LPG astatine Visakhapatnam, which is 1 of India’s 2 semipermanent LPG retention locations, had handled 2 ships carrying LPG aft February 28. Each vessel carried and unloaded astir 24,000 tonnes. The full capableness of the cavern is 60,000 tonnes and is 1 of 2 semipermanent LPG retention facilities successful India.
Globe Polaris, carrying cargo from Houston, Texas, is expected to scope Sandhead, Kolkata, connected March 24, according to an authoritative successful Haldia port. It volition berth the pursuing time and discharge much than 20,000 tonnes successful all.
BW Birch, carrying LPG taken from Nanda Devi successful Vadinar Port successful Gujarat done ship-to-ship transfer, is expected to dock astatine Haldia connected March 29 and discharge cargo. Gas Jupiter is besides expected connected April 3 astatine Haldia. Recently, 2 LPG ships had discharged astatine Ennore, Chennai.
While Kochi has received nary LPG since February 28 and nary is expected this week either, 2 ships person discharged their LPG cargo astatine Ennore, Chennai, recently.
LPG carrier Apollo Ocean volition telephone connected New Mangalore Port (NMP) connected March 25 to discharge astir 27,000 tonne. The vessel, sailing nether the Vietnam flag, is arriving from Vadinar wherever it took cargo from Shivalik.
Another LPG tanker carrying immoderate 30,000 tonne of cargo is expected connected March 29 astatine Mangaluru. The HPCL LPG import installation successful Mangaluru transfers the imported LPG to section bottling plants arsenic good arsenic pumps the state towards Bengaluru and beyond done the Mangaluru-Bengaluru LPG pipeline.
Meanwhile, a refinery adept who didn’t privation to beryllium identified, cautioned that the 40% summation successful home LPG accumulation from refineries whitethorn not beryllium sustainable successful the agelong term. “Forty percent tin beryllium doable lone if the extraction of each value-added products from the earthy LPG is stopped and is pumped into the marketplace arsenic LPG. For instance, propylene production, which goes into manufacture of polypropylene, has been stopped and this volition origin important losses to the refinery,” the adept said.
(With inputs from Sumit Bhattacharje, Sunita Sekar, Anil Kumar Sastri, Satyasundar Barik, Dhinesh Kallungal, and Lalatendu Mishra)
