Insights & Analysis

VPS: How to Engineer and Manage Green Shipping Fuels

Stanley George, VPS Group technical and science manager, discusses some of the technical challenges posed by the current marine fuel mix.

30 Jan 2025 · Stanley George, VPS Group Technical and Science Manager

INTERVIEW: Burando Energies Sees HSFO Reaching 40% of Rotterdam Bunker Sales in 2025

Burando is preparing for increased HSFO sales at the Northwest European hub, General Manager Felix Vertommen tells Ship & Bunker.

29 Jan 2025

INSIGHT: A Comparative Analysis of Alternative Fuels for Sustainable Maritime Shipping

Eliseo Curcio, director of clean technologies at Blend Tiger, discusses the relative advantages of the range of alternative fuels being offered to the shipping industry.

28 Jan 2025 · Eliseo Curcio

INTERVIEW: Bunker Holding Denies Widespread Layoffs After Recent Reorganisation

Bunker Holding CEO Keld Demant discusses his company's reorganisation amid market rumours of widespread changes at the firm.

22 Jan 2025

INTERVIEW: AuctionConnect Sees 'New Era' for Digitalisation of Bunker Industry

AuctionConnect's Per Funch-Nielsen discusses growing demand for digitalised bunkering services in an interview with Ship & Bunker.

20 Jan 2025

INTERVIEW: Monjasa Seeks to Become Panama's First Biofuel Bunker Supplier

The company has sourced a finished B30-VLSFO blend from Europe and is ready to supply as much as 5,000-7,000 mt/month of it in Panama, Monjasa's Jonas Bruslund tells Ship & Bunker.

16 Jan 2025

ANALYSIS: Singapore 2024 Bunker Sales Jump to Record High

Singapore's conventional and biofuel total for 2024 reached 54.48 million mt, up by 5.3% on the year and the highest on record.

15 Jan 2025

INSIGHT: How to Cope With FuelEU Maritime

Glander International Bunkering discusses how the shipping industry is approaching compliance with the FuelEU Maritime regulation.

14 Jan 2025 · Glander International Bunkering

INTERVIEW: Baseblue Sees 'Mixed Level of Readiness' for FuelEU Maritime

Baseblue CCO Gregoris Gregoriou discusses readiness for FuelEU Maritime and how the firm's Fuelink platform can help in an interview with Ship & Bunker.

9 Jan 2025

Accurate Testing of Energy Content Essential for Bio-Marine Fuels: Maritec

Testing firm Maritec discusses the issue of varying energy content in biofuel bunker blends.

9 Jan 2025 · Maritec

INTERVIEW: Svitzer Sees Battery Power as Key to Decarbonising Tug Segment

Svitzer COO Kasper Karlsen sets out the company's plans for biofuels and battery power in an interview with Ship & Bunker.

8 Jan 2025

FEATURE: Increasing Complexity in 2025 to Favour Largest Bunker Firms

Regulations, sanctions and geopolitics, credit concerns and digitalisation will bring headaches to the bunker industry in 2025, with the largest firms best able to cope with them.

6 Jan 2025

EU-ETS Costs Jump as Phase-In of Regulations Steps Up in 2025

EU-ETS compliance is adding 27.5% to VLSFO consumption costs on intra-EU voyages at the start of 2025, up from 15.7% at the end of last year.

2 Jan 2025

EU ETS Added $90/mt to EU Bunker Costs in 2024

But the final cost of EU ETS compliance for individual companies in 2024 may not be known until the end of September 2025.

1 Jan 2025

MARKET SURVEY: Q3 Bunker Hub Demand Jumps by 4.7% on Year With Red Sea Diversions

2024's total is heading for a 3.4% gain from 2023 and the highest level since 2019, according to the latest market survey from Ship & Bunker and 2050 Marine Energy.

23 Dec 2024

FuelEU Maritime - Is It Too Late to Act?

Ossi Mettälä, product manager at NAPA Shipping Solutions, discusses the upcoming FuelEU Maritime regulation and how the shipping industry can respond.

17 Dec 2024 · Ossi Mettälä, product manager, NAPA Shipping Solutions

ANALYSIS: Singapore November Bunker Sales Gain 4.2% on Year

Singapore's 2024 total is heading for 54.26 million mt, up by 4.7% from 2023's record high.

16 Dec 2024

ANALYSIS: Bunker Price Outlook for 2025

Bunker prices will be lower in 2025, but overall costs will rise for those operating within European waters, according to the latest analysis by Ship & Bunker.

11 Dec 2024

Beyond Fuels and Technology: The Human Element in Maritime Decarbonisation

Dr Edmund Hughes, director of Green Marine Associates Ltd, discusses the increasingly complex regulatory environment for maritime decarbonisation.

10 Dec 2024 · Dr Edmund Hughes, Director, Green Marine Associates Ltd

Sweden's Renewable Fuel Surplus: A Maritime Catch-22

GAC Sweden's Nils Igelström highlights the need for industry collaboration to prevent a stall in shipping's energy transition.

4 Dec 2024 · GAC Sweden