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Skytanking provides aviation fuelling services including into-plane fuelling, aviation fuel storage and hydrant management, investment in aviation fuel facilities at airports and engineering. Founded in 1998, the company is a subsidiary of
Marquard & Bahls and is
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ed in
Hamburg
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, Germany.
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Retrieved August 2019. It handles 23.2 million cbm of aviation fuel per year, refuels 2 million
aircraft
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, and has operations at 83 airports in 14
countries
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in
Europe
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Asia
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Africa
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and
North America
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(as of: November 2019).
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Retrieved August 2019. Skytanking employed around 1,890 people in 2018.
Customers and services
Skytanking's customers include
airline
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s,
airport
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s, and oil companies. The company provides into-plane fuelling services, and specializes in funding, building and operating all parts of the on-airport
jet fuel
Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines. It is colorless to straw-colored in appearance. The most commonly used fuels for commercial a ...
supply chain. The company finances, builds and operates airport storage and hydrants on a build, own, operate (BOO) or a build, own, operate, transfer (BOOT) basis. Examples include
Bangalore
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
, India, and Stuttgart, Germany.
Company structure
Integration into the parent group and subsidiaries
Skytanking is one of Marquard & Bahls' mainstays of business, and is structured into more than 10 companies in four regions (Europe, Africa, Asia and North America). The majority of these companies are included in the Marquard & Bahls consolidated financial statement, the rest are associate companies. North Air, UK; IndianOil Skytanking, India; Luxfuel, Luxembourg; Skytanking Calulo, South Africa; Hydrant Refuelling System (HRS), Belgium; and Skytanking Ovenon, Turkey, include associate companies.
Management and personnel
Clinton Roeder and Christoph Lindke are managing directors of the Skytanking group of companies. In 2018, Skytanking employed 1,890 people at year-end.
Locations
The company is active in
Germany
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Austria
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Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
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Belgium
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Luxembourg
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UK,
Italy
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Malta
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France
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Spain
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Turkey
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,
United States
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South Africa
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and
India
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. Its German airport operations include
Hamburg
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Frankfurt/Main,
Stuttgart
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Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
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Düsseldorf
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and
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
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History
From the beginning to 2010
In 1998, the entry into aviation fuelling business led to the idea of purchasing Omnitank's 50-percent interest in Omni Aircraft Service at Munich Airport. At that time, the company was offered for sale to Marquard & Bahls AG, Skytanking's parent company.
Skytanking was established as a separate division of Marquard & Bahls, Hamburg, in 2001. One year later, in 2002, Skytanking bought Merlin Fuels NV at the cargo airport in
Ostend
Ostend ( nl, Oostende, ; french: link=no, Ostende ; german: link=no, Ostende ; vls, Ostende) is a coastal city and municipality, located in the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerk ...
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Belgium
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, and positioned itself strategically in that region. In 2003, Skytanking started operations in
Miami
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,
United States
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, and was responsible for fuelling the two Star Alliance airlines
United
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Air Canada at
Miami International Airport
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. Two years later, in 2005, the company acquired the Belgian Fuelling & Services Company, which handled half of the into-plane fuelling operations at
Brussels International Airport. It also had an extensive portfolio of contracts to provide services for fuel companies at other European airports, including
Athens International Airport
Athens International Airport ''Eleftherios Venizelos'' ( el, Διεθνής Αερολιμένας Αθηνών «Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος», ''Diethnís Aeroliménas Athinón "Elefthérios Venizélos"''), commonly initialised as ...
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Luxembourg Airport
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and
Liège Airport. Skytanking Zurich also launched into-plane operations in October 2005. In 2006, Skytanking Vienna started business activities in Austria. At the beginning of 2006, Skytanking and its partners Indian Oil and IndianOiltanking were granted a 20-year fuel facility concession for new Bangalore International Airport, India; the joint venture IndianOil Skytanking Limited launched its fuelling operations at Bangalore International Airport in 2008.
By mid-2006, aviation fuelling had become Marquard & Bahls’ third-largest business area, with Skytanking operating at 14 European and American airports and employing about 320 people around the world.
![Skytanking Europe Germany Stuttgart Tank-Fuel-Farm-and-Bowser-Truck 2008-10-13 0199 top angep](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Skytanking_Europe_Germany_Stuttgart_Tank-Fuel-Farm-and-Bowser-Truck_2008-10-13_0199_top_angep.jpg)
In 2007, Skytanking and Stuttgart Airport signed a 30-year BOOT contract for the construction and operation of the new aviation fuel storage facility, which opened in 2009. The new
Indianapolis International Airport, USA, opened in November 2008; Skytanking was awarded a contract for management and operation of the fuel storage and hydrant system. In 2009, besides starting its facility operations at
Stuttgart Airport
Stuttgart Airport (German: ''Flughafen Stuttgart'', formerly ''Flughafen Stuttgart-Echterdingen'') is the international airport of Stuttgart, the capital of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is christened in honor of Stuttgart's forme ...
, Germany, Skytanking took over AirFuel, a joint venture between
Air France
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and
Kuwait Petroleum Aviation France that worked in into-plane fuelling at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, handling more than 1 million tons of jet fuel per year. The acquisition marked Skytanking's market entry in France. In the same year, Skytanking purchased two aircraft-fuelling service companies in Italy, HUB Srl and PAR Srl, and provided aviation fuelling at five airports in this country:
Milan Malpensa Airport,
Milan Linate
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Rome Fiumicino
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Naples
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and
Palermo
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airports, servicing over 200,000 aircraft per year. At that time, Skytanking's overall network comprised 26 airports in Europe, the US and Asia, employing 508 people.
Since 2010
In 2010, Skytanking Calulo started aviation fuelling operations in
Durban
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South Africa
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, at the new
King Shaka International Airport
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, including into-plane fuelling and the operation of the tank storage and hydrant system. Furthermore, Skytanking entered the into-plane fuelling market in the UK by acquiring 51% of shares in North Air Limited, a company that provided into-plane fuelling and jet fuel storage management services at 17 airports across the country. In 2012, Skytanking added jet-fuel storage and into-plane services at two more airports in
France
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Nice Côte d'Azur and
Bordeaux Mèrignac. Later that same year, in November 2012, Skytanking began providing into-plane fuelling services at Frankfurt Airport – the 50th airport in Skytanking's portfolio. Frankfurt, alongside the existing sites in Munich and Stuttgart, gave Skytanking a presence at three of Germany's ten busiest airports by passenger volume; Frankfurt Airport was the third-largest airport in Europe, and the ninth-largest worldwide. In 2013, Skytanking USA added
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport,
Texas
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, to its network. Skytanking sold its subsidiary Skytanking USA with its 14 US sites to Aircraft Service International Group (ASIG) in 2014, and in return, took over ASIG's business at Munich, Vienna, Linz and Klagenfurt airports to strengthen its network in Germany and Austria. Following this transaction, the company was operating at 40 airports in 11 countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. In addition, Skytanking started into-plane fuelling operations at Hamburg Airport, Germany, where its corporate HQ is located.
![Skytanking Europe Germany Stuttgart Tank-Fuel-Farm-at-Night-and-Trucks 2008-10-14 1860 top angep](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Skytanking_Europe_Germany_Stuttgart_Tank-Fuel-Farm-at-Night-and-Trucks_2008-10-14_1860_top_angep.jpg)
In December, 2014, Skytanking completed the purchase of an 84-percent shareholding in Hydrant Refuelling System NV (HRS), which owned and operated the jet fuel storage and hydrant system at
Brussels National Airport
Brussels Airport, nl, Luchthaven Brussel, vls, Vliegpling Brussel, german: Flughafen Brüssel is an international airport northeast of Brussels, the capital of Belgium. In 2019, more than 26 million passengers arrived or departed at Brus ...
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Belgium
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. At the end of 2016, Skytanking and the Turkish company Ovenon founded the joint venture Skytanking Ovenon; it provided aircraft fuelling personnel to oil companies at 18 airports in Turkey including Istanbul,
Ankara Esenboğa Airport
Ankara Esenboğa Airport ( tr, Ankara Esenboğa Havalimanı) is the international airport of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It has been operating since 1955. In 2017, the airport has served more than 15 million passengers in total, 13 milli ...
and
Antalya Airport.
In March 2017, Skytanking was re-awarded the contract for aviation fuel storage and hydrant system management at Munich Airport, where it has operated the fuel facilities since 1999. One month later, in April 2017, Skytanking Limited, a joint venture between Skytanking and the Maltese company Attard Services Limited, started into-plane fuelling operations at
Malta International Airport. In October 2017, Skytanking completed the acquisition of the employees and assets of Sun Jet Services at Germany's Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Cologne airports. As Turkey is an emerging aviation hub, Skytanking Ovenon AS has taken over the aviation fuelling operations of Petrol Ofisi
Vitol
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in Turkey in May 2018, offering into-plane fuelling and tank farm management services at 21 Turkish airports today.
In April 2019, Skytanking added another country to its network with Barcelona El Prat Airport in Spain; Spain is the third largest aviation market in Europe. Barcelona is the first location where Skytanking operates, followed by Valencia in May 2019.
In April 2021 Skytanking was sold to PrimeFlight Aviation Services, Inc. The former parent company Marquard & Bahls is holding a minority stake in PrimeFlight and indirectly participates in Skytanking after the closing of the transaction in April 2021.
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