Following TFG Marine’s announcement earlier this week that it is expanding its Caribbean bunkering network to Venezuela, the company tells ship.energy that bunker barges are currently en route to the country and will be ready for a mid-month start-up of supply operations. TFG Marine is working with local distributor and operator Impordiesel on the venture and the supply locations along the Venezuelan coast will be at Amuay (which neighbours Punta Cardon on the Paraguaná Peninsula in Falcón), Puerto la Cruz, La Guaira, Guanta, Maracaibo, Puerto Cabello, El Guamache, José and the Boca de la Serpiente area. Available fuel grades include […]

The dark fleet has tripled in size since 2022 and, as Windward’s Senior Maritime Intelligence Analyst Michelle Wiese Bockmann told delegates at ARACON 26, ‘Russia’s shadow fleet has evolved into a parallel fleet – it’s not a shadow fleet anymore.’ Speakers in the first session of the conference in Rotterdam covered global marine fuel market trends, European pricing dynamics in the context of a geopolitically volatile and uncertain climate, the economic environment for shipping and the changing behaviour of the sanctioned fleet. Explaining ‘the big picture’ for the shadow fleet, Bockmann said that 40% of seaborne trade is now taking place […]

On 3 November, Sawgrass LNG & Power, in collaboration with Gas and Heat SpA and REV LNG, refuelled a cruise ship at Fort Lauderdale with approximately 320 cubic metres of LNG. The supply operation involved eight LNG trucks and an LNG4Speed skid owned by REV LNG. The LNG was sourced from Sawgrass LNG & Power’s Miami facility. As previously reported by ship.energy, earlier this year Sawgrass LNG & Power undertook the first shore-to-ship LNG bunkering operation at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection vessel Ilma was fuelled at the Floridian port on 26 March. Image: Gas and Heat