Some 4,820,700 metric tonnes (mt) of marine fuel (including alternative fuels) were sold in Singapore last month – 8% up on the 4,462,200 mt that were sold in November 2024. Sales of very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) totalled 2,512,400 mt – and this marked the highest monthly total of 2025, according to statistics published by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). While VLSFO saw an increase in sales, high sulphur fuel oil (HSFO) fell for a fourth successive month, ending November at 1,818,700 mt. Elsewhere, low sulphur gasoil (LSMGO) sales (366,400 mt) rose year-on-year (y-o-y) but fell month-on-month […]

Wärtsilä is supplying ‘fuel-flexible’ main engines for two new pusher tugs that are currently being built for Brazilian operator AMAGGI. In a statement sent to ship.energy today (17 December), Wärtsilä said that the tugs, which are under construction at the Beconal shipyard in Manaus, will each have two Wärtsilä 20 engines which are able to run on either diesel or biodiesel fuel with a total power output of 2,100kW. This will allow each ship to push as many as 20 barges, carrying a total of 32,000 tonnes of grain on the Amazon inland waterway system. The Wärtsilä equipment is scheduled […]

Marine battery manufacturer AYK Energy has announced the signing of a second deal with Spanish shipowner Mureloil. As previously reported by ship.energy, AYK said last November that it would be equipping Mureloil’s 8,000 DWT diesel-electric tanker, Bahía Candela, with its Aries+ battery system. In a statement issued today (16 December), Andorra-based AYK Energy said it will be supplying the same system to Mureloil’s Bahía Beatriz, currently under construction at Astilleros de Murueta shipyard, outside Bilbao. AYK highlighted that two tankers will double Mureloil’s capacity to transport biofuels and methanol, adding that they will be among the first in the world to […]