imo 2020

By Alexander Whiteman (The Loadstar) – President Emmanuel Macron chose this week’s G7 summit to reaffirm France’s commitment to slow-steaming as the

By Noah Browning LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – African states like Chad and Cameroon are shaping up to be big winners from new rules to cut sulfur emissions

JAKARTA, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Indonesian-flagged ships will comply with new low-sulphur fuel rules that start next year, the country’s Ministry of

By Verity Ratcliffe (Bloomberg) –Iran is about to burn a lot more fuel oil as a result of U.S. sanctions and new global shipping rules, reversing the

By Ahmad Ghaddar and Julia Payne LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Margins for European high sulphur fuel oil (HSFO), used to power ships, sank this week as

OSLO, Aug 13 (Reuters) – Commodities trader Trafigura is joining forces with shipping firms Frontline and Golden Ocean to supply marine fuel ahead of a

By Jack Wittels and Timothy Abington (Bloomberg) –The world’s biggest oil tanker has begun a 12,400-mile voyage to a fuel-storage zone in Asia, the

By Alex Longley (Bloomberg) Head to the shipyards of Shanghai, Singapore or Hamburg and you’ll soon find them full to the brim with vessels rushing to clean

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Growing safety concerns around the IMO’s 0.5% sulphur cap on marine fuels has led to talk of a period of “permitted

By Bernadette Christina and Roslan Khasawneh JAKARTA/SINGAPORE, July 26 (Reuters) – Indonesia will not enforce new global rules mandating low-sulphur

By Roslan Khasawneh and Chen Aizhu ONBOARD THE PU TUO SAN, July 25 (Reuters) – Off the coast of Singapore, the world’s largest ship refuelling

BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) – China will extend a ban on discharging the waste water from open-loop scrubbers to more coastal regions starting in 2020,

With just five months to go until the IMO 2020 sulphur cap, the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners has expressed its concern over the

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, July 18 (Reuters) – Oil product inventories in the Singapore storage and trading hub fell to an eight-month low in the

STOCKHOLM, July 17 (Reuters) – Sweden’s Alfa Laval reported a fall in quarterly orders on Wednesday on weaker-than-expected demand for ship exhaust

By Jack Wittels – (Bloomberg) –As recently as a year ago, the oil market was in a panic about changes to the kind of fuel that ships must burn.

By Jane Chung and Florence Tan SEOUL/SINGAPORE, July 16 (Reuters) – Refineries in Taiwan and South Korea are testing the market for fuels that meet new

By Jonathan Saul, Maiya Keidan and Tom Arnold LONDON, July 8 (Reuters) – Shipping companies, refineries, freight derivatives or diesel cracks?

(Bloomberg) –They may still be six months away, but new rules on marine fuels are already sending shock-waves through the little-known world of refinery

By Firat Kayakiran (Bloomberg) –The world’s oil refineries could have done more to be ready in time for new rules governing the kind of fuel that