Buckeye Gets Port Access Pending Mid-Pandemic Gulftainer Dispute

Buckeye Partners LP won a Delaware Chancery Court order Tuesday temporarily blocking port operator Gulftainer Co. Ltd. from barring access to fuel tanks bound for hundreds of Wawa gas stations operating as “essential infrastructure” during the coronavirus pandemic.

Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster granted the temporary restraining order and set a $1 million bond without an opinion explaining the reasoning. The judge also agreed to expedite the case, which was filed Monday. The court ordered Gulftainer affiliate GT USA Wilmington LLC to respond by April 9.

The lawsuit accuses GT USA—which operates the Port of Wilmington, Del.—of using the ...