Germany-based LNG bunker supplier Nauticor has christened the world’s largest liquefied natural gas bunkering vessel Kairos during a ceremony last week in Hamburg. The christening took place last Friday at...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Jan 25 (Reuters) – Singapore-based Ocean Bunkering Services (OBS) Pte Ltd topped the 2018 list of largest marine fuel suppliers operating in the world’s biggest ship...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Sales of marine fuels in Singapore, the world’s biggest ship fuelling port by volume, totalled 49.8 million tonnes in 2018, down 2...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) will ban the discharge of “wash water” used in ships to scrub engine exhaust from Jan. 1, 2020,...

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) — A Danish shipping company is planning to use waste vegetable oil to power its fleet, the latest in a list of fuel innovations from a...

By Ellen Milligan (Bloomberg) — Add oil tankers breaking down at sea to the list of things shipping companies are worrying about as they brace for a once-in-a-generation overhaul to the kind...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Sept 5 (Reuters) – A wave of contaminated fuel that has clogged and damaged engines on hundreds of oil tankers and container vessels in the past...

A.P. Moller – Maersk, owner of the world’s largest shipping line, has agreed to a joint initiative with independent tank storage operator Royal Vopak to launch a low sulphur bunkering...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, July 31 (Reuters) – Inquiries for marine fuel supplies in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) Fujairah oil hub have spiked as shippers try to avoid loading tainted...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, July 27 (Reuters) – Contaminated marine fuel that clogs and damages ship engines has been found in Singapore, the world’s largest ship refuelling hub, according to...

SINGAPORE, July 16 (Reuters) – Marine fuel services provider Pegasus Maritime (Singapore) Pte Ltd has lost its licence to operate bunker crafts in the port of Singapore effective July 16,...

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – In the face of increasing anger from shippers over emergency bunker surcharges, shipping consultant Drewry too has hit out at ocean carriers for the “failure...

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – Shipper hopes that carriers will not impose fuel surcharges have been shot down as Maersk and CMA CGM became the latest to implement a bunker...

PARIS, May 25 (Reuters) – French shipping group CMA CGM said on Friday it would introduce an exceptional surcharge after its first quarter earnings were hit by a sharp rise...

COPENHAGEN, May 25 (Reuters) – The world’s largest container shipping company Maersk Line is increasing prices because of a surge in the cost of bunker fuel. The shipping fuel has...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 27 (Reuters) – Singapore will extend the mandatory use of mass-flow-meters to bunker barges delivering distillate fuels to large ships, the port authority said on Friday,...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 26 (Reuters) – Singapore’s Maritime Port Authority (MPA) is set to announce it is making use of mass-flow-meters (MFM) mandatory onboard marine gasoil barges used...

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, April 25 (Reuters) – The Singapore fuel oil market has rallied this week as inventories have dropped at the same time that some supplies in the...

LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) – The International Maritime Organization said it approved on Friday an amendment that would ban ships unequipped to strip sulphur from carrying high-sulphur fuel from 2020...

By Libby George LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) – Global shipping fuel costs are likely to rise by a quarter, or $24 billion, in 2020 when new rules limiting sulphur kick...