APAC News

Singapore Set for Tightening Fuel Oil Market
After a huge volume of fuel oil was traded in Singapore earlier in the year, supplies that had to be placed into floating storage are now almost empty.
8 Aug 2016
Bangladesh Receives Offers on First Tender for Fuel Oil
Sources say the company has received offers on its first tender to buy fuel oil at premiums lower than its term deals, with Vitol currently the most likely to win.
5 Aug 2016
Korea's Ulsan Port Eyes LNG Bunkering with Public-Private Sector Cooperation Agreement
The Ulsan Port Authority says the three year cooperation agreement will support the Ulsan's efforts to become South Korea's first LNG bunkering port.
4 Aug 2016
Top 5 Singapore Bunker Supplier's Vessel Detained on Suspicion of Illegal Bunkering
The bunker vessel was one of three detained by Malaysian authorities on Sunday.
3 Aug 2016
China MSA Issues ECA Inspection Guidance for Officers
Inspections will be split between vessels using low sulfur bunker fuels and those using alternative methods of compliance measures within the ECA.
3 Aug 2016
Typhoon Nida Suspends Bunkering Activity in Hong Kong
Traders were unsure when normal operations would resume at the port, but said they expected busy terminals and tight avails when they do.
3 Aug 2016
Monjasa Issues Winding Up Order Against Singapore's Searights
"We have sought to reach a solution with our counterpart for a considerable time period but the issue remains unresolved," Monjasa tells Ship & Bunker.
3 Aug 2016
IBIA Asia Establishes Singapore Bunker Surveyor Sub-Committee
IBIA Asia has established the sub-committee to support the development of standard operation procedures on MFM for bunker surveyors in Singapore.
2 Aug 2016
Analyst Calls Singapore a "Parking Lot" of Product as Oil Dips Under $40
Diverse circumstances are also causing analysts to predict that oil will "go lower from here."
2 Aug 2016
Another Player Exits Singapore Market After MPA Revokes AC Oil's Bunker Licences
The MGO only supplier had not even held the licences for a complete year.
1 Aug 2016
Singapore Bunker Suppliers: Top 20 Player Searights Out, Maersk Oil Trading In
The number of suppliers in the world's biggest bunkering port remains at 59.
29 Jul 2016
Approval of LNG Bunkering at Port of Fremantle an "Australian First"
EVOL LNG Thursday announced that Fremantle Ports has given the company approval to bunker LNG at the port.
29 Jul 2016
Berge Bureya Confirms Bunker Spill from VLOC in Strait of Malacca
Berge Bureya spilled an undefined quantity of bunkers into the waters off Malaysia in the Malacca Strait Tuesday morning.
29 Jul 2016
Vietnam Authorities Arrest Vessel Over Illegal Bunkering
The Thai ship Takuzan 111 is said to have been found with about 260,000 litres of fuel onboard without the appropriate documentation.
27 Jul 2016
Singapore And China Among A Long List Of Nations Whose Stored Oil Volumes Confound Experts
Analysts say it's impossible to determine how much oil is really stockpiled globally.
27 Jul 2016
Singapore: LNG Bunkers Can Be Widely Adopted by Shipping Industry, Says MPA's Andrew Tan
The comments came during an address by Tan at the Port of Yokohama LNG Bunkering Mini Seminar in Singapore on Friday.
22 Jul 2016
Two South Korean Shipping Lines Slated to Ply Northern Sea Route Until September
Pan Ocean and Kukbo Transportation will be shipping plant facilities to Russia and Kazakhstan by way of the Arctic's Northern Sea Route.
21 Jul 2016
Titan Petrochemicals Announces Successful Restructuring, Return to Hong Kong Stock Exchange
The company's shares returned to trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 15, 2016.
21 Jul 2016
Four Men Arrested in Singapore for Fraudulent Possession of MGO
Singapore Police Force say about 25 metric tonnes of MGO was found hidden in the buoyancy tanks of a tug boat on Monday.
21 Jul 2016
Malaysia Sees Growing Importance for Strait of Malacca
The Malaysian Prime Minister's special envoy to China says there is "renewed interest in maritime facilities along the Strait of Malacca."
20 Jul 2016