State-owned CPC Corporation has said bunkering capacity at Kaohsiung Port will be reduced for a short period in mid-October after one of its bunker barges was taken out of service for equipment maintenance.
Sources indicated the development on 9 October 2026, saying CPC's Bao Shan No. 2 will be temporarily unavailable while unexpected maintenance is carried out. The company described the outage as a temporary interruption to its normal bunker operations.
Scale and timing
CPC has set the period of limited bunkering from 12 to 17 October, during which time the supplier expects to operate with reduced barge availability. A Taiwan-based source told the report that the absence of Bao Shan No. 2 is likely to remove roughly one-third of the port's regular bunker supply capacity for those days.
The unit out of service
The vessel named in the report, Bao Shan No. 2, has been taken out of service to permit repairs and remedial work after equipment issues were discovered, according to the published account. CPC characterised the work as maintenance that could not be deferred without risking further operational problems.
The announcement identifies CPC Corporation as a state-owned supplier whose fleet contributes directly to Kaohsiung's bunkering throughput. The temporary shortfall therefore reflects a constraints on one supplier's floating delivery capability rather than an immediate closure of shore facilities.
reports's item, headlined Barge maintenance to tighten Kaohsiung bunker supply, set out the dates and the expected scale of the impact on 9 October 2026. The report attributed the one-third figure to a Taiwan-based source and did not suggest a longer-term interruption beyond the maintenance window.
The measure is described in the report as an unforeseen maintenance event rather than a scheduled pause, and CPC's decision to take the barge out of service was framed as necessary to address the discovered equipment fault. The company and the report indicated the outage is limited in duration and focused on rectifying the immediate defect.
Operators calling at Kaohsiung during the stated period will encounter a reduced availability of barge-borne bunkers supplied by the affected unit. The reporting does not give further detail on alternate arrangements or onshore adjustments by other suppliers, noting only the proportionate reduction in capacity attributable to Bao Shan No. 2 being offline.
CPC's role as a state-owned supplier, the barge name, the maintenance dates and the estimated one-third reduction in capacity are the central facts presented in the published account. Those facts form the basis of the expectation that Kaohsiung's bunker supply will be tighter while the maintenance is performed from 12 to 17 October.
The report provides the public advance notice of the outage and the likely scale of its effect; it records the maintenance as unexpected and confines the impact to the specified six-day window. Further developments would be reported by the company or by local sources should the situation change.
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