imo 2020

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Prices for Australian heavy-sweet crude grades are rising as traders snap up cargoes for blending ahead of new

By Bill Lehane (Bloomberg) — Global oil demand is about to get a boost from a rule that’s supposed to help the environment. The world’s refineries

SINGAPORE, April 4 (Reuters) – China Marine Bunker (PetroChina) Co Ltd, known as Chimbusco, has agreed a one-year supply deal with a COSCO Shipping Corp

By Emily Chasan (Bloomberg) — At noon every day — when the sun is directly overhead — the world’s fleet of commercial maritime

By Saket Sundria and Ann Koh (Bloomberg) — Singapore has a message for shipping companies considering cheating on rules starting next year to combat

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – The Baltic Exchange has opted to keep its benchmark shipping indices unchanged, despite calls from some market players for

By John Kemp LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – If oil traders and consumers are worried about the impact of new maritime fuel regulations from the start of

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates, March 26 (Reuters) – R efiners around the world have invested about $1 billion so far to produce low-sulphur marine fuel

By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) – Euronav has chartered a tanker to bring a 30,000 tonne cargo of low-sulphur fuel oil from northwest Europe

By Jonathan Saul and Nina Chestney LONDON, March 19 (Reuters) – More ports around the world are banning ships from using a fuel cleaning system that

By Mike Wackett (The Loadstar) – Analysts predict that the impact of IMO 2020 will mean slower ships and more transhipment. This would be a further blow

BP says it will begin selling a new type of low sulphur bunker fuel that meets new MARPOL regulations limiting the sulphur content of marine fuels to 0.5%. BP

By Mike Wackett in Long Beach (The Loadstar) – The implications for carriers and BCOs of the IMO low-sulphur regulations that come into force in

Maersk Tankers will invest in four scrubber systems to be installed on selected LR2 vessels in the Maersk Product Tanker fleet before January 2020. The

By Mike Wackett (TheLoadstar) MSC, Maersk, Cosco and CMA CGM are among ocean carriers that expect to temporarily increase their capacity this year to mitigate

by Roslan Khasawneh (Reuters) – The port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has begun offering cleaner marine fuel oils that comply with

A.P. Moller – Maersk says it has secured a deal New Jersey-based PBF Logistics on the production and storage of .5% sulphur fuel that will amount to

The International Chamber of Shipping is looking ahead towards a zero-carbon future for shipping as sulphur and greenhouse gas emissions takes center stage

LONDON, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Research firm Woodmac sees a rise in the use on ships of “scrubbers”, the equipment to clean up sulphur emissions,

By Roslan Khasawneh SINGAPORE, Jan 23 (Reuters) – Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates has become the latest major port to ban a type of fuel