APAC News

SIBCON 2024: Equatorial Marine Fuel to Receive First Methanol Barge by End of 2024

The firm has a total of four bunker delivery vessels capable of handling methanol on the way by the end of 2025, COO Choong Sheen Mao tells Ship & Bunker.

15 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Singapore Needs More LNG Barges as Demand Projected to Quintuple

Singapore is heading for LNG bunker sales of about 450,000 mt this year, up from 111,100 mt in 2023 and 16,300 mt in 2022.

15 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Indian Oil Firms Seek Greater Role in Biofuel Bunker Market

The country's top oil firms are now looking at direct biofuel bunker sales at Indian ports as early as next year, local sources tell Ship & Bunker.

14 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Pertamina Mulls B24 and Methanol Bunker Supply in Singapore from 2025

The firm may start selling B24 and methanol in Singapore as soon as next year, a company source tells Ship & Bunker.

14 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Vitol Sees Singapore Biofuel Demand Roughly Doubling Every Year

Singapore biofuel bunker demand may reach 2 million mt next year, Vitol Asia CEO Mike Muller tells Ship & Bunker.

11 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Singapore's Eng Hua Awaits Methanol Bunker Barge in 2026

The firm expects to take on the new methanol delivery vessel in 2026, a company source tells Ship & Bunker.

10 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Maersk Was Largest Biofuel Buyer in Singapore Last Year

The firm's biofuel purchases in Singapore last year were larger than any other shipping company's, Maersk Oil Trading CEO Emma Mazhari tells Ship & Bunker.

10 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Vitol Expects to Win Singapore LNG Bunker Supply Licence

Singapore LNG bunkering is on the cards for Vitol 'very, very soon', Vitol Asia CEO Mike Muller tells Ship & Bunker.

10 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Singapore Develops New Methanol Bunkering Standards

The reference covers custody transfer requirements, including quality and quantity measurements, for delivery of methanol as a bunker fuel, as well as operational and safety requirements including crew training.

9 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Singapore to Make E-BDNs Mandatory From April 2025

Digital bunkering will need to be the default option for bunker suppliers from April 1, 2025, senior minister of state Amy Khor announces at Sibcon.

9 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Minerva Christens New LNG-Fuelled Bunker Vessel

The 8,000 DWT dual-fuelled Amalthea was built at Jiangmen Hangtong shipyard, classed by Bureau Veritas and will be deployed in Singapore.

9 Oct 2024

Wan Hai Lines Takes on First Biofuel Bunker Blend

KPI OceanConnect sold a B24 blend to the Wan Hai 510 in Singapore on October 4.

8 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Singapore Plans to Revise Biofuel Bunker Standards Next Year

The current plan is to release the revised standard in the first quarter of 2025, Rahul Choudhuri of VPS tells Ship & Bunker.

8 Oct 2024

Tanker Arrested in Singapore

The Liberian-flagged ship was built in 2008 and came to Singapore from China over the past two weeks.

8 Oct 2024

SIBCON 2024: Singapore to Release Ammonia Bunkering Standards Next Year

The authorities are planning to publish the new ammonia bunkering standards by the end of 2025, FueLNG's Saunak Rai tells Ship & Bunker.

8 Oct 2024

Singapore: Wan Hai Lines Bunkers Biofuel Courtesy of KPI OceanConnect

Physical operation in southeast Asian bunkering hub handled by SK Energy.

7 Oct 2024

New Zealand Navy Survey Vessel Sinks off Samoa

All 75 crew and passengers of the HMNZS Manawanui were rescued in the early hours of Sunday morning.

7 Oct 2024

BUNKER JOBS: Banle International Seeks Trainee in Kuala Lumpur

The company is looking for candidates with good English and Mandarin, as well as a degree in logistics or a related field.

6 Oct 2024

BUNKER JOBS: Maersk Seeks Fuel Trader in Singapore

The company is looking for candidates with two to five years of commodity trading experience and fluent English.

4 Oct 2024

OK Lim to Pay $3.5 Billion to Hin Leong Liquidators

The family have agreed to pay $3.5 billion to the liquidators, plus annual interest at 5.33% from April 2020 to the present.

3 Oct 2024