Report Reveals Red Sea Closure’s Impact on VLSFO Compliance, and Emerging Bunker Quality Trends
Bunker Quality Trends 2024
The fourth bi-annual report from Integr8 Fuels shows shipowners and bunker buyers how they can improve their buying processes and performance. Diving into the world’s largest bunker fuel quality sample database, the report reveals the most pressing quality issues the industry is up against.
These include:
Red Sea closure affecting VLSFO compliance for vessels rerouting around Africa
Global VLSFO compliance suffers as suppliers stretch barges to cash in on rising HSFO demand, driven by increasing scrubber numbers
Two-thirds of fuels are still sold with obsolete (pre-2017) specifications. Can the new ISO specs finally shake up old school practices?
Profit margin-motivated blenders push more HSFOs over ISO limits
VLSFO sulphur off specs worsening in the ARA and partly driven by high- to low sulphur barge switching
The supply landscape as it relates to availability, off-specification trends and problematic parameters
