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WHITEPAPER: Stability and Compatibility issues with VLSFOs

Fuel users have a short time to make decisions on blending without having access to the incoming fuels, Viswa Lab writes.

6 Mar 2020

More Coronavirus Induced Losses For Crude As OPEC Comes Closer To Cutback Agreement

Russia's participation is crucial in the fight against impacted demand.

5 Mar 2020

Weekly Vessel Scrapping Report: 2020 Week 9

Have you sold bunkers to a recently scrapped vessel? Check here with VesselsValue's demolition sales from February 27 – March 4, 2020.

5 Mar 2020

LNG Bunkering Pioneer UECC Tries Out Biofuels

Over the next three months UECC will burn 3,000 mt of GoodFuels's bio-fuel oil.

5 Mar 2020

Wärtsilä to Divide Marine Business Into Three Independent Units

The company's financial reporting will reflect the new structure from the second quarter of this year.

5 Mar 2020

Monjasa Wins Court Case Over $6.5 Million Sao Tome and Principe Bunker Cargo Dispute

The dispute related to a confiscated oil cargo that Monjasa bought in 2013.

5 Mar 2020

Singapore's MPA Toughens Measures to Control Spread of COVID-19 Virus

As of Thursday the MPA's precautionary measures list now includes all arriving vessels, passengers and crew which have visited ports in mainland China, Iran, northern Italy or South Korea in the past 14 days.

5 Mar 2020

Shipping Industry Awaits EU Emissions Trading Review in June 2021

On Wednesday the European Commission announced details of a new European Climate Law committing to a net-zero greenhouse gas plan for the continent by 2050.

5 Mar 2020

IFO180 Bunkers Fade from Global Spot Markets

As a result, Ship & Bunker will stop publishing IFO180-related multi-market averages indices.

5 Mar 2020

Russian Reluctance To Combat Coronavirus Impact Causes Crude Losses

Some analysts think OPEC cuts won't be enough to prop up the market.

4 Mar 2020

Coronavirus Puts Brakes on Industry Events

But bunkering's biggest gatherings of 2020 proceeding as planned.

4 Mar 2020

FOBAS: Large Bunker Quantity Shortages Encountered With VLSFO Fuels

The contributory factors to this issue have varied from port to port.

4 Mar 2020

Bunker Jobs: USA-Based Traders, 3 Positions

Based in either San Antonio, Texas or Stanford, Connecticut.

4 Mar 2020

Biofouling Costing Bunker Buyers $30 Billion Annually

But it's the environmental cost that will drive tougher regulations on the matter.

4 Mar 2020

Minerva Bunkering Takes Over Aegean's Physical Supply Licence at Fujairah

Minerva is now the 13th active licensed bunker supplier at the Middle Eastern hub, Platts reported Tuesday.

4 Mar 2020

Fujairah Fuel Oil Stocks Slip From Three-Month High

Heavy distillate and residue inventories dropped to 13.556 million barrels by Monday.

4 Mar 2020

Gazprom Neft Annual Bunker Sales Grow to 3 million mt

2019 sales up 2% year-over-year.

4 Mar 2020

Consultants See 'Unprecedented Surge' in Short-Notice Scrubber Enquiries

Foreship has seen "an unprecedented surge of enquiries on how exhaust gas cleaning systems can be fitted at short notice."

4 Mar 2020

ANALYSIS: IMO Fuel Reports Show VLSFO Shortage Blackspots

FONAR submissions for January suggest some countries' ports are becoming more unreliable for VLSFO supply than others.

4 Mar 2020

Panic Over Virus Spread Unwarranted But Still Causes Price Gains For Crude

Meanwhile, OPEC is reportedly close to agreeing to deeper cuts.

3 Mar 2020