Bunkering

South Korea’s SK Chemicals has started tests on blending biodiesel with petroleum-based fuels to create low sulphur fuel oil (LSFO) for shipping, in view of the upcoming IMO 2020 regulation.

Monjasa announced it is establishing a new supply area in Houston to match supply and demand for many of its global customers.

The port of Rotterdam has shared that sales of its very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) are generating increasing interest ahead of IMO 2020 with half of November sales being the 0.5% sulphur grade.

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has revoked the bunker supplier licence of Inter-Pacific Petroleum effective 9 December 2019 over the company’s involvement in bunkering malpractices.

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is committing to using biofuel blends following trials earlier this year.

CMA CGM has inked a deal with Total for it to supply LNG for containerships operating between the Med and Asia with bunkering in Marseille and Singapore.

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (H&Z) has made progress with its project on a 18,000-cu m large LNG bunkering vessel following a classification contract signing with Bureau Veritas (BV), and lined up another future project to build a 25,000-teu LNG...

As the possibility of ammonia providing zero emission fuel for shipping grows Lloyd’s Register (LR), MAN Energy Solutions and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp (DSIC) have collaborated on an ammonia-fuelled ultra-large containership (ULCS) design.

K Line has inked a ship management deal with FueLNG for the first LNG bunker tanker to supply fuel in Singapore.