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UK Supplier Looks to Provide Buyers With More Certainty Over Future Bunker Prices
Geos Group says it is looking to help clients form hedging strategies to buffer the possible effects of a rise in oil prices
17 Jun 2015
MMEA and RMN Widen Search Area for Orkim Harmony, 3 More Aircraft Deployed to Assist
The search area for the MT Orkim Harmony reportedly expanded to include assistance in the waters off neigbouring countries.
17 Jun 2015
Brightoil Entering E-Commerce
The company said that it was in conceptual stages of planning an e-commerce company based on its oil and gas assets.
17 Jun 2015
Traders: Singapore Set for a Bunker Price War, Market is Flooded with Oil
The country's fuel oil inventory reported to be at its highest in over 15 years.
17 Jun 2015
Orkim Harmony: MMEA Says Shipowner Waited Too Long Before Alerting Authorities to Tanker's Disappearance
Orkim's 10 hour delay before alerting authorities made it "very difficult" for the MMEA.
17 Jun 2015
Bunkers Steady as Crude Futures Make Mixed Movements
Brent contracts for August started the day firming and reached levels $64.41 but softened $0.20 cents per barrel by the end of the trading day.
16 Jun 2015
German Scrubber Company to Install System Aboard Tanker
Babcock Noell's system will be installed aboard Carl Büttner's MT Aurelia.
16 Jun 2015
Goldman Sachs Links Weak Rates to Decline in Bunker Prices as Asia-Europe Spot Rate Plunges Below $250
Shanghai Containerised Freight Index rates hit $243 per TEU late last week.
16 Jun 2015
Ports of Auckland Welcomes New 10-Year Bunker Vessel Charter Agreement
Seafuels has reportedly signed a 10-year charter agreement with Z Energy for Awanuia, a fuel bunkering vessel.
16 Jun 2015
Almost Half of Tankers Not Ready For New July 2015 SOLAS Regs
From July 1, 2015 new (IMO SOLAS regulations will require ECDIS with ENC to be installed on all tankers of 3,000 gross tonnes or more.
16 Jun 2015
Carnival to Build World's Largest Capacity Cruise Ships, Power Them Using LNG Bunkers
The four new ships will reportedly be the first in the cruise industry to use LNG in hybrid engines and will have the largest guest capacity in the world.
16 Jun 2015
Monjasa Moves into Oil Trading
The company announced Monday that it is expanding its business, which currently consists of global shipping and bunkering, to include oil trading.
16 Jun 2015
Orkim Harmony: MMEA Says Bunker Pirates Likely "Still Looking for the Logistics to Transfer the Oil to Their Client"
The vessel was carrying 6,000 metric tonnes of Petronas-owned RON95 fuel worth $5.5 million.
16 Jun 2015
OW Bunker Almost Bankrupt During 2008 Oil Price Collapse, "Should Never Have Been Listed" Says Former Risk Manager
Kenneth Rosenmeyer says he lost OW Bunker some $45 million when the price of oil collapsed after hitting its all time high in July 2008.
16 Jun 2015
Singapore Bunker Volumes Hit 13 Month High as Sales Surge Continues
May also saw the port receive 3,497 calls for bunkers, the highest since at least the start of 2011.
16 Jun 2015
Crude Futures Cool on Yemen Peace Talks
The expiry of Brent July contracts softened $1.12 per barrel settling at $62.61, WTI front month contracts for July settled at $59.92 per barrel.
15 Jun 2015
Teekay Launches LNG Ship with "the Lowest Unit Freight Cost in the World Fleet"
The Creole Spirit is being outfitted to transport up to 174,000 cubic metres of LNG.
15 Jun 2015
Illegal Bunkering Charges Brought Against Monjasa are Baseless, Says CEO
Illegal Bunkering Charges Brought Against Monjasa are Baseless, Says CEO
Anders Østergaard, CEO at Monjasa Holding, says the case illustrates clearly that several sovereign states are trying to claim rights to a EEZ zone.
15 Jun 2015
Update: 14 Arrested as Monjasa, Glencore Accused of Illegal Bunkering
Nigeria's EFCC says charges include dealing with 1,738.087 mt of petroleum products "without lawful authority or appropriate licence".
15 Jun 2015
DNV GL Maritime Names New CEO
Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen will be the new CEO of DNV GL Maritime.
15 Jun 2015