APAC News

Malaysia's Techfast Holdings Reports $535 Million Bunker Supply Deal

Techfast subsidiary Fast Energy has agreed to provide marine fuels supplier Wise Marine with 10,000-30,000 mt/month of bunkers over the next three years.

16 Mar 2021

Total's Singapore LNG Bunker Supply Licence Starts in 2022

The licence is for a five-year term starting from January 1 of next year.

15 Mar 2021

Malaysia Detains Liberian Tanker

The authorities detained the ship at 4:15 PM on Friday.

15 Mar 2021

S&B ANALYSIS: Singapore Bunker Sales Gained 6.2% in February

The city-state's total sales reached 4.12 million mt in February, according to preliminary MPA data, 6.2% higher than February 2020's level but 8.5% lower than the 12-month high of 4.5 million mt reached in January 2021.

15 Mar 2021

India Cancels 10 Bunker Supplier Licences

The authorities had warned 24 firms that they were in breach of the rules in December because of a failure to carry out an annual surveillance audit of their bunker supply management system.

15 Mar 2021

Malaysia's Straits Inter Logistics Saw Bunkering Profit Halve in 2020

The company reported oil trading and bunkering profit of $7.612 million for 2020.

15 Mar 2021

Japanese Firms Seek to Develop Ammonia Bunker Supply Chain

Itochu Corporation, Ube Industries and Uyeno Transtech will work together on the project.

12 Mar 2021

Inter-Pacific Petroleum Judicial Managers File Winding-Up Application

A hearing for the application is scheduled at Singapore's High Court on March 25.

12 Mar 2021

MR Tanker Arrested in Singapore

The ship had last called at Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.

11 Mar 2021

LPG Bunker Barges May be Suitable for Ammonia

Keppel Offshore & Marine will be tasked with developing and designing an LPG bunkering vessel that can be modified to carry ammonia at a later date.

10 Mar 2021

Testing Firm Warns of Phenols in Singapore VLSFO

Phenols and other contaminants were suspected to be behind the global bunker contamination crisis of 2018 that originated in the US Gulf.

9 Mar 2021

Digitalization of the Bunker Industry Has Been Delayed for Too Long: Toyota Tsusho

Toyota Tsusho is launching a blockchain-based bunker ordering platform, BunkerNote, from June of this year.

9 Mar 2021

Singapore Court Approves Hin Leong Winding-Up Application

Goh Thien Phong and Chan Kheng Tek of accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers made the application last month.

8 Mar 2021

Mabanaft Singapore Subsidiary Matrix Marine Fuels To Be Wound Up

Any creditors are advised to send their details to the firm's liquidators by April 5.

8 Mar 2021

GP Global's Singapore Unit Wins Six-Month Debt Moratorium

Singapore's High Court granted the moratorium to GP Global APAC on Thursday.

8 Mar 2021

Lanka Marine Services Relaunches VLSFO Bunker Supply at Hambantota

With its first stem complete, LMS expects to place its bunker barge MT Kumana at the port, supplier tells Ship & Bunker.

4 Mar 2021

Indonesia's Pertamina Seeks to Produce VLSFO for Singapore Bunker Market

The firm currently receives LSFO cargoes from Freepoint Commodities that it uses to supply ships in the Singapore bunker market.

3 Mar 2021

Sinopec Launches Wholesale Bunker Deliveries to Hambantota

Local supplier Lanka Marine Services (LMS) was Sinopec's first buyer.

2 Mar 2021

Singapore Firm Takes 10% Stake in Malaysian Bunker Supplier Straits Inter Logistics

The firm paid paid about $3.4 million for the stake.

2 Mar 2021

Container Shortage Brings Delays to Singapore

For 18,000 TEU ships visiting Singapore the wait time is now five to seven days, up from a maximum of two previously.

1 Mar 2021