Garolla Group

The activities of the Garolla Group began in 1870. The company's main activities were importing coal and supplying bunkers for ships, which at that time were equipped with steam engines. To carry out the business the Company employed coal ships, which transported coal from the United Kingdom, and locally in the port of Naples a large number of barges, towed by tugs. In 1927 the first tanker was purchased, a 3500 TDW, which was for a long time used to transport oil to and from the Black Sea. Since the 1950s the Company has continued its activity in tankers in the TDW range, for the transportation of petroleum products, chartered by majors such as EXXON - SHELL - AGIP - BIP etc. chartered to majors such as EXXON - SHELL - AGIP - B.P. etc. and developed bunker supply business in some Italian ports. In the meantime, the bunker supply business in the port of Naples changed from coal to fuel oil and then developed with the use of new small tankers, barges and tugs. In 1996 the Group entered in the offshore support business with the acquisition of two anchor handling tug supply vessels with its Company Vigliena that in 2004 become - MED OFFSHORE. Sarda Bunkers owns and manages tankers used for bunkering operations and transportation of oil products. The company has the license for bunkering in the ports of Naples, Salerno and other minor ports of the Campania region for more than 60 years. The company carries out also activity of slop and sludges removal from the vessels in the port of Naples.