Martyn Lasek
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IMO Favours Limited Split in Methanol and Ethanol Bunker Safety Rules Despite Push for More (opens the original)
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Draft IMO guidelines favour a limited split for methanol and ethanol, File Image. Image Credit: AI Generated / Ship & Bunker The IMO is favouring a limited split between methanol and ethanol in its safety rules for alcohol-fuelled ships. Until now the IMO has treated them as one, under interim guidelines issued in 2020 as MSC.1/Circ.1621. That has made ethanol's rise as a marine fuel a good deal easier since it has been able to follow methanol into the same engines, tanks, and rulebook, with the
ANALYSIS: $14/mt Separates the Best and Worst Singapore Bunker Suppliers on the Cost of Doing Business, Fuelsure Data Shows (opens the original)
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According to Fuelsure, recent post-fixture bunker costs in Singapore can equate to as little as $0.42/mt and as high as $14.44/mt, depending on which supplier you choose. how do you pick the right supplier in the right port, and are the savings enough to justify the effort of trying to get it right? That is a $14/mt spread on the cost of doing business. In other words, if three different suppliers in Singapore all fix with buyers for 1,300 mt of VLSFO at $900/mt, then once post-fixture costs are
Seafarer Welfare: Industry Can Back the IMO but Governments Need to Act, Says IBIA's Hughes (opens the original)
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Seafarer welfare is getting worse on two fronts at once, with a five-year review finding that the standards shipping companies report for themselves are running well ahead of what crews say they experience, while ships and the people on them keep being attacked in the Strait of Hormuz. good welfare can be delivered but those standards are not yet part of daily life for many seafarers The Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI) and five partners, including RightShip, the Mission to Seafarers, and t
Interview: XFuel Says Waste-Derived MGO Can Reduce Emissions Without a Green Premium (opens the original)
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Nicholas Ball, chief executive and co-founder, XFuel XFuel says the marine gas oil it will produce from waste hydrocarbons can reduce emissions at a price that competes with conventional fossil fuel rather than demanding the premium associated with most other alternative marine fuels. The claim matters because, as chief executive and co-founder Nicholas Ball told Ship & Bunker in an interview this month, the next best alternative is "multiple times more expensive than fossil pricing", leaving ow
FEATURE: Bunker Suppliers Can No Longer Trust Two Key Sanctions Checks (opens the original)
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Knowing who you are dealing with is getting harder. File Image / AI Generated A bunker supplier weighing up an enquiry has two important ways of establishing who it is dealing with. The first is the vessel's certificate of registry, which confirms its identity and says whose flag it sails under, and the second is its AIS history, which says where it has been. Not only are both now routinely faked, the cost of getting it wrong has just shifted from the shipowner onto the supplier. In the second q
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